All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive. " (Mr. Bell)
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.
When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.
'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.
