On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.