For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I’m unable to write.
Because I’m not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb – one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I’m coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.
Be first the master of yourself.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
This isn’t the first time the world has come to an end, and it won’t be the last either.
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don’t owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third.
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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.
I am lucky, I’m the first to admit that.
I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.
My first vocation was dance.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it ’til my fingers bled.