It is that word ‘hunny,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence – no first draft. I can’t write five words but that I can change seven.
A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
He didn’t say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don’t remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love – but if you should deny me the thousand and first – ’t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
I’m not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, ‘This band is going to be the king of the town.’ It was obvious. They were so good.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once – when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.