First Quotes

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.

People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

The first book I did – the first successful book – was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

The first meeting in 1983 was held in India and I was very off put by her. I just couldn’t abide her, basically.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It’s like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.