Quotes About First

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

was the first boy I ever slept with. His name

At first Edward had tried hard to shield her from the press. That first year. That first, godawful, intolerable, excruciating year, when she was nine.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

remarkable was that she had been the first female detective in the Burlington Police Department. As far as he knew she was still the only one. And she had been his partner. They had made more arrests leading to more convictions than anyone in

his first and only love, whom he had adored ever since when? – ever since yesterday, ever since for ever.

for vermin like him certainly did breed like lice and had been a plague since the first day that someone had figured out that while some labored, others would "administer.

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. 'Tis too cold a companion: away with 't!

Since when does brotherhood draw crowds? Has compassion ever finished first? Does doubt ever really rouse the rabble? Only hatred has just what it takes.

And of all man's felicities The very subtlest one, say I, Is when for the first time he sees His hearthfire smoke against the sky.

The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles, and what counts first and last in art is quality; all other things are secondary.

We made our first private-life contact not at Harmondsworth or in the Kombibus but at the London Library in St James's Square.

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!

that in the chain of memory into which we are forged the first links should be the strongest, as if they, just they, were the most real reality.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

keep this excitement for the letter which shall tell you of my first love. By the way, why always "first?" Is there, I wonder, a second love?

We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.

Graves: It's going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one's free.

her first day in Paris she can hardly get out of bed. When finally she does, she stands at the window and watches the cats. She does not feel depressed so much as absent. She

never, ever told you I was classy. Not ever. I fucked you on our first date. What on earth made you think I was classy?

My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me.