Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.
I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.
The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.
I shopped a lot on 1stdibs.com when I first started modelling. Just whenever, I've always been on and bought all my furniture on 1stdibs.com.
I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
