I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it’s too discouraging.
When I first read the words ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ when I was 10, I thought I was both.
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
The actual flower is the plant’s highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
Brains first and then Hard Work.
First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.
If I ever leave this place- I’ll make sure I’m better HERE first.
At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?
I don’t care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.