Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.
Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.
After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?
There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
How can you be alienated without first having been connected?
Well chaps first I’d like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.
First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
That was the first time I knew I loved him.
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
Theater’s my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.