The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman – the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
Life seemed to be an educator’s practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don’t know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.
I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn’t really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn’t really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don’t have the time to come up with theories.
The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
I’m having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
I’m the first to admit that I can’t be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.