Everything solid was first an idea.
A poet’s first contract is with truth.
Which came first – the observer or the particle?
Love is the eternal first breath.
Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again – until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
The first piano was built long after they didn’t have any at all.
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves – not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first – because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen’s Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen’s Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
Hitler was the first superstar.
You’re always first when no one’s on your side.
I say to first time filmmakers that when they’re asked, they should go to America as you’re far more likely to get a chance.