Firsts Quotes - Page 285

And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. —from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.