I am younger each year at the first snow.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
Knowing where the trap is – that’s the first step in evading it.
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.
It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
I can’t remember what my first script was.
Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not – well, it’s progress.
The names for things don’t come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
The secret is that when you’ve been pitched head first into hell you just write about it.
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.
The first book I did – the first successful book – was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.