Top 222 First Of All Quotes

First of all I’m not a fan of Twitter. Nothing against their program or what they have, but as an athlete I think you need to get off of Twitter.
Donovan McNabb
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
Nicolaus Copernicus
I just look at capitalizing on everything that I feel like G.O.O.D. Music brings to the music industry, our following, and the culture. First of all, we have incredible artists. It’s definitely about getting those albums out in a very manicured fashion.
Pusha T
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
Bernice King
First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.
Jamie Dimon
I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.
Michael Bisping
First of all you need to have speed. If you only have experience and don’t have the speed, then you are never going to get the speed. This is the main point. So you are better off getting someone quick and you develop him with experience.
Rubens Barrichello
When I was living in L.A., first of all, I had actually tried out or submitted to be on ‘Tough Enough’ when I was living in L.A. and then I ended up getting, like, a few call backs, but because I had just moved out there for the Lakers, I just felt like I couldn’t have done both.
Carmella
I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn’t really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.
Graham Nash
First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.
John Sebastian
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
Viola Davis
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I’ve never been much of a theorist.
John Eaton
Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. van Vogt
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.
Robert Delaunay
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60’s is really a survivor.
Patti Smith
June. June Mathis. No, no one else, ever. She gave me my start. She first, of all people, believed in me.
Rudolph Valentino
I’ve never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called ‘Make It Last Forever: The Do’s and The Dont’s,’ which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me.
Keith Sweat
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Frank McCourt
First of all, the skin is the largest organ in the body, so if you’re going to eat well for your heart or for your kidneys or for your liver, then, pretty much, that will help your skin as well.
Maye Musk
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon
I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doi

I think, first of all, you need to love what you’re doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you’re doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.
Cecilia Bartoli
First of all, I’m not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
Garry Shandling
I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.
Mike Gordon
I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I’m motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people’s ideas of who I am.
Ken Hensley
First of all, radical beliefs are not a predictor of terrorist behavior: most people who hold radical beliefs never become terrorists, and some terrorists don’t hold radical beliefs.
Masha Gessen
First of all, I’m not a singer or rapper. I’m an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.
Raftaar
First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.
Nico Santos
First of all, I’m in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn’t vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
Marty Meehan
You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and – first of all, it was relief. I was not – there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.
Patty Hearst
I don’t subscribe to that no-carb thing. I’m so sick of the Atkins diet and all that. First of all, if you’re not eating carbs, all you do is think about them. It’s one of those things that you take out, and initially, you lose weight, but you are miserable.
Katie Lee
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
Alan Dershowitz
Well, first of all, I’m an incredibly gullible person – I’m so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, ‘You know, ‘gullible’ isn’t even in the dictionary.’ And I said, ‘Really?’ As I was saying ‘Really?’ I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that’s how bad I am.
Carla Gugino
You have to keep writing. It’s almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
Colm Toibin
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all ‘not of blood’. You don’t get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones
First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it’s called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
Joe Torre
I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.
Steve Burton
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists – once burned – are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
Vint Cerf
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
Claude Debussy
I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.
Cecelia Ahern
I don’t really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don’t read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That’s all I can tell you.
R. Kelly
First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic.
Kathy Acker
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin
I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it’s not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn’t particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.
Dick Cavett
First of all, let me just say what’s interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let’s just keep some perspective here.
Marco Rubio
First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I’m not the only one. But I happen to be blessed that my son gave me all these things to work with so that I get to work out my grief in a way that other people are not able to. So I can’t possibly be downtrodden about that.
Afeni Shakur
As a woman, first of all, let me say this: I know Donald Trump for 30 years. We socialized with him. I have been involved in a million situations with him and his children. He has always been a gentleman.
Jeanine Pirro
The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.
Alexander Lukashenko
One thing was crystal clear to me: if you’re centre-back, you first of all have to perform your task.
Frank Rijkaard
I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she’s interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn’t need to add things.
Karen Gillan
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Marina Abramovic
First of all, I think all countries in the world have a

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone’s interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.
Lee Myung-bak
First of all, we haven’t always welcomed immigrants.
Samuel P. Huntington
I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity – why I create and not for whom.
Raoul Peck