I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people. '
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.
Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can. Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.
Stop looking at me like that. " Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she said, and then began washing the windows.
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.
Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word. . . but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.
You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.
It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.
Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.
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I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy. . .