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!'
Alonzo: What's happening? You got the picks and shovels? Mark: You gonna dig a ditch? Alonzo: Nope. You are. That's a nice suit. [to Paul] Alonzo: What's going on, killer? Paul: I can't call it. Been hearing some shit out here on these streets. You a...
One whisky is all right; two is too much; three is too few.
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.
Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage.
That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.
The first marriage is a plate of honey, the second a glass of wine, and the third is a cup of poison.
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
