Best Firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 25

“Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.”

Should Firsts Order Loses Study Fashion Sight Moved Impression Orderly First Impression Cramps

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.”

Knows Want Firsts Enough Happiness Share Commodity True Happiness

Author:Robert Holden

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.”

Want Firsts Shows Eye Rooms Impression Glances Entering First Impression Impressionism

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.”

Should Firsts Two Book Literature Views Emotion Study Students Method Point Of View Thoughts And Emotions Workmanship

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.”

Firsts Sometimes First Time Intention Boring Shock Shocking Vacuous

Author:Roger Scruton

“My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.”

Firsts Film Found Father Changed Criticism Critics Engineers Assistants Changed My Life Stanford Film Critics

Author:Roger Corman

“I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.”

Firsts Mean Remember Realizing Break Records Compliment Gretzky

Author:Sidney Crosby

“It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.”

Firsts Seems Remember Games Memories Forever Yesterday Ice Nhl Skating

Author:Sidney Crosby

“Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.”

Firsts Stills Nations Community Communication Communicate Emergencies Infrastructure

Author:Susan Collins

“When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."”

Ifs Firsts Said Age Like You Personality Fit Mets Come Up Agents Range Blonde Brunette

Author:Tia Carrere

“Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.”

Firsts Said Kids Remember Games Heard Shots First Time Telephones Remember When

Author:Carson Daly

“Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.”

Source: The Lightning and the Sun

“I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.”

Firsts Shows Felt Roles Audience Successful Heard Models Theater Accomplishment Role Models Applause Sense Of Accomplishment Lancaster Seesaw

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.”

“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

Firsts Littles Persons Made Artist Models Sculpture Modelling

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Moments Moving Wish Realizing Attention Gone Paint Concentration Brushes Hares Buzzards

Author:Morris Graves

“Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.”

Feels Firsts Different Ends Sometimes Moving Form Accepting Wind Paid Shrinks Voyages Moralist

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.”

Firsts Century Twenties International Definitions Affirmation Alliances Organisation

Author:Chuck Hagel

“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Past Lines Approach First Time New Ideas Recurrence

Author:Robert Hass

“There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!”

People Firsts Courses Dating Golden Cinema Bad Things Golden Rule First Date

Author:Steven Hill

“Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”

Firsts Literature Disease Comparison Sexually

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.”

Firsts Moments Young Artist Taken Independence Insecurity Good Art Good Artist Young Artists

Author:Jeff Koons

“The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.”

World Firsts Country Speech Currents Amendments Other Countries Freedom Of Speech First Amendment

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Done Order Need A Change

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...”

Firsts Littles Waiting Emotion Alive Seeing Experience Paint Impression Colour Unseen Tubes Palette

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.”

Firsts Believe Wells Artist Subjects Objects Painting

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”

Firsts Has Beens Art Lying Art Is Crosses Males Works Of Art Strokes Erotic Penetrate Ornaments Vertical Horizontal Lying Down

Author:Adolf Loos

“Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!”

Firsts Hard Young Sea Land Rocks Kings Daughter Rose Winter Warm Rings Snow My Daughter Bells Locks Beard Sunny Icy

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

“'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.”

Firsts Doctors Mythology Ran Greek Doctor Who Egyptian

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.”

Firsts Matter Light Darkness Ignorance Touching

Book:The Speed of Dark

Source: The Speed of Dark

“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

Firsts Guy Stuff Sin Cities New York Drawing Noir Vermont Tights Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.”

World Firsts Powerful Attitude Streets Design Inspire Smart Performances Size Brands Consumers Engineering Boldness Ignite Bland Dodge Suvs Street Smart

Author:George Murphy

“I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.”

Firsts Morning Bed Leaving Couches Dissatisfied

Book:Bill Nye, his own life story

Source: Bill Nye, his own life story

“I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.”

Thinking Firsts Problem Form Political Accepting Roles Huge First Time Racial Profiling

Author:Kal Penn

“Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.”

Feels Years Firsts Whole Lasts Bits Pressure Last Year Disappointing Calendars Skipper

Author:Ricky Ponting

“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Firsts Made Book Reading Wonderful Reader

Author:Neil Gaiman

“On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.”

Firsts Looks Information Users Monopoly Developers

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.”

People Way Firsts Has Beens Book Literature Harder Hardest Contracts Hardest Thing Publicists

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.”

Firsts Kind Littles Rejection Rejected

Author:Britney Spears

“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.”

Firsts Book Sometimes Fighting Literature Winning Rights Speech Losing Defense Comic Fund Amendments Freedom Of Speech Comic Book First Amendment First Amendment Rights

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.”

Way Writing Firsts Book Stories Remember Realizing Obsessed Narnia

Author:Neil Gaiman

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.”

Firsts Two Lasts Turns Three Challenges Careers Middle Victory Corners Finished Broke Flags June Tunnels Lanes Top 10 Checkered

Author:Tony Stewart

“Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.”

Firsts Done Ready Months Six Training Corners Rings Bells Auditions Six Months Boxers Invest In Yourself

Author:Karl Urban

“I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.”

Feels Firsts I Can Football First Time Clouds Bowls Super Bowl Pro Football

Author:Ricky Williams

Firsts Quotes

Related topics

Firsts Quotes