From the first I was clamorous to learn...
The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.
Accurst be he that first invented war.
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
Every monster was a man first.
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.
Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world’s first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.
It’s easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.
Do you believe in apathy at first sight?
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by ‘The New Yorker.’
As a writer I’m essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.
First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of ‘The Bachelor.’
At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.