To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.
[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.
Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.
Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.