« All First Quotes · David Sedaris's Page
First Quotes by David Sedaris
- I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.…
- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,…
- I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
- As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where…
- Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.
- At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
- My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in…
- He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he…
- I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was…
- States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess…
More First Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong