First thought, best thought.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
When you know what you’re against you have taken the first step to discovering what you’re for.
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn’t get carved out by poor people.
If you don’t get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.
Ah, the first rule of public speaking – always start with a joke.
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It’s more personal in that it’s more direct, and actually it’s always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.
The ancient saying, “There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses,” and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.
However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.
It was the first time she’d discovered something she really didn’t want to find, and she didn’t know what to do once she’d found it.