T Quotes
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“The first scone is what I like to call the practice scone. It not until the third -nay fourth- that you develop any kind of scone-eating expertise”
“The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four.”
“The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.”
“The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.”
“The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.”
“The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent governments fled to the water, where they built civilization on stilts. That startup society - a free city-state on the water - became so successful it dominated the Mediterranean for a thousand years.”
“The first, second, and third thing we, humans of society, do when meeting others is always to perceive them based on their gender or sex, and also color. And we do so with the prejudicial package that we carry. It is as if that is all that matters to us, first and foremost, not the human.”
Source: Rebel Thoughts of Wisdom: Inspiring Conscious Change for Personal & Collective Growth
“The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.”
“The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it.”
“The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.”
“The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this:
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'
My bokonist warning is this:
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
So be it.”
Source: Cat’s Cradle
“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”
“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.”
“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”
Source: In the Skin of a Lion
“The first sentence of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s that reached me still jolts me every time I run into it. “Meek young men,” he wrote in “The American Scholar,” “grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books…”
Source: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
“The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.”
Source: The Miserable Mill
“The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.”
“The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.”
“The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.”
“The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.”
Source: Life Together
“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.”
“The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.”
“The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'”
“The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.”
“The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.”
Source: Lumen Fidei: The Light of Faith
“The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.”
“The first seventeen years of my life, I fasted. I kept my body clean and my spirit pure. Now, I wanted to feast like a glutton, spread lust on my breakfast toast, shoot violence and sip greed. And I want you to teach me, sinner man, because you're the only man for the job.”
Source: Welcome to the Dark Side
“The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all... I didn't sit down and think, ''I am going to write something about the religious right.'' I started out by writing something about sexual addiction, and it evolved... I don't look at a calendar and say: ''Oh! There's going to be an election in 1996. I think now, in 1993, I'll start writing a play that'll be ready for it.''”
“The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.”
“The first shall be last and the last shall be first.”
“The first shall be the last. Humiliation precedes elevation.”
“The first shot does not beat you.”
“The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.”
“The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen.”
“The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.”
“The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.”
“The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn’t spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator … my Lord … my God.”
Source: Out of the Garden
“The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.”
Source: Cassatt and her circle: selected letters
“The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.”
“The first sign of consolidation is rarely dramatic.
It is often conversational.
I remember a dinner during which someone said, calmly and without emotion, “He will stay as long as he wants.”
No one objected.”
Source: THE ARCHITECTURE OF AUTOCRACY: Permanence, Power, and the Engineering of Stability
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
Source: Last Essays
“The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.”
Source: True bills
“The first sign of friendship is to share food.”
“The first sign of kundalini awakening is the deep compassion for all beings. The 114 chakras and compassion are deeply rooted.”
Source: 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation