Success is not about getting it right the first time but about not giving up even if it takes a lifetime of effort.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
I'm not an if at first you don't succeed kind of a girl. When it comes to marriage I'm more of a one and done type.
Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time
The first step in any Journey, Is the belief that the road will open up in front of you even if you cant see it....
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".
First love doesn't always means heartbroken, but it's the perspective people take from different conditions.
First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks.
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.
If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.
Before you let your voice be heard, first lick your lips.
