A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.
German predominance is not all-encompassing. In foreign affairs and military matters, for instance, France and Britain still play a much bigger role. But across a large swathe of European policy, Germany has become much more than a first among equals.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
First and foremost, I married for love.
I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.
I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Chinese President Xi Jinping says that if Canada wants free access to Chinese markets, Trudeau should first ram a pipeline to the B.C. coast on China's behalf.
