Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident. . . themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.
He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.
There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.
Morals and lights are our first necessities.
When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.
The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow. "
If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.