I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.
The very FIRST Step to making your dreams come true....is to wake up from sleep.
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.
The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.
Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.
First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.
