Best firsts & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”

Trying Firsts Real Jobs Past Stars Support Directors Producers Outlines Whatever It Takes

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.”

Ifs Firsts Long Would Be Past Night Acting Teach Novel Teacher Reader Satisfied Novelists Imperfection Behalf Savagery Long Nights

Book:Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism

Source: Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism

“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.”

Firsts Looks Littles Art Stills War Facts Past Remember Fall Century Objects Easier Errors Decades Inevitable Survived Adore Great Art Nazism Rise And Fall Eruption War Of 1812

Author:Michael Cunningham

“My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.”

Way Firsts Two Character Stories Past Novel Research My Way

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.”

Inspirational Firsts Today Past Steps Significant First Steps Can't Change Significant Change You Can't Change The Past Can't Change The Past

Author:Hal Elrod

“There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!”

Years Firsts Past Joy Lost Heaven Realizing Forget Mistake Doubt Cry Tears Inspire Comfort Cost Eternity Gods Will No Doubt Heavenly Thank God Wipe Forget The Past

Author:David Berg

“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

Firsts Past Doors Building Broken Proud Window Empty Plates Renewal New Day Gleam Tiles Each New Day

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“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

“I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Kind Past Half Decades Investors Caution Over The Past Dip

Author:Liz Miller

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.”

World Firsts Persons States Hands Seems Age Past Moving Humanity Dies Information Materials Evidence Blind Entertainment Speed Senses Perceive Goods Deaf Acquaintance Deaf And Blind

Author:Julian Simon

“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.”

People Years Firsts Believe I Can Kids Lasts Past Crazy First Time Red Cameras Workers Aids Noses Last Time Crew Famine Ethiopia

Author:Lenny Henry

“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.”

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

People Thinking Firsts May Has Beens Eye Together Past Names Son Decided Breaths Witness His Eyes Stamps Luther

Author:Bernhard Rust

“In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.”

Firsts Kind Art Dream Wanted Past Desire Left Sex Cities Generations Towns Get Away Crew

Author:Sarah Schulman

“I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.”

People Firsts Home Past Night Courses Hours Party Dinner Expected Coffee Hardest Meals Exhausted Saturday Dessert Saturday Night Bedtime Appetizers

Author:Ina Garten

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.”

Firsts Facts Past Praise Islam Prophet Pluralism Pluralism Is

Author:Karen Armstrong

“None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.”

Thinking Giving Years Firsts Running Past Pleasure Dregs

Author:John Dryden

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”

“We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.”

Firsts May Past Progress Orderly Ruts

Author:Robert Heilbroner

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