Firsts Quotes - Page 291

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.

Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.

With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources of your own being.

For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning.