Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Everywhere’s been where it is ever since it was first put there. It’s called geography.
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn’t actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
I don’t think I’ve ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.
Every step is a first step if it’s a step in the right direction.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don’t use logic when I do it. Logic’s the first thing you have to get rid of.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.