Firsts Quotes
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first
It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me
