Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.
I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
I believe my speed begins when I round first base.
I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.
Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.
My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.
First we build the tools, then they build us.
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.
First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.
If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.
A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.