There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.
You can tell a lot from a person’s nails. When a life starts to unravel, they’re among the first to go.
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
If thou would’st have me sing and play As once I play’d and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for ‘The Namesake,’ I felt that it had to be a novel – it couldn’t work as a story.
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you’ve set. But if you’re writing about science, you have to first learn what you’re writing about.
I’m a writer first and a woman after.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell.
When someone’s wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.