What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. – Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do’Urden.
Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.
When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.
There’s no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don’t get up for a third.
Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it’s never going to be perfect on your first pass.
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it – because it reminded him of her.
The first time I performed musically, I threw up.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you’ve got to listen to them first.
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.
To be a great leader, first become a great person.