My first book was the book that changed my life.
American is the first democratic nation-state.
You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.
In the exercise of God’s efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice – the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.
The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.
No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
I’m one of the first Americans who wasn’t a torturer or an interrogator.