There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin.
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is,
Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
