Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.

The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me.

The last time is the one that gets you, because it leads right into the first time. Nowhere to go. But you go on anyway. The more you go on the more you stop thinking about going on, because you’re thinking about it all the time. Everything backs up. It gnaws here on the edge, looking back I order not to look forward.

To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.

When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.

Unscrewing the cap, Gabriel squeezed a bit of clear jelly onto his fingers and understood. Covering Joey’s body with his own, Gabriel kissed his lips. “But you said – something we haven’t tried …” “We haven’t.” Reaching up, Joey cupped Gabriel’s cheek. “What happened before was one stranger attacking another. What happens now is between you and me.” “Joey.” Gabriel kissed the other man’s earlobe, his jawline, the hollow of his throat. “I can’t hurt you again. I’ll kill myself first.

Vane held the reins of his desire in a grip of iron and refused to let his demons loose. Deep, primal instincts urged him on; experience held him back. She'd never yielded her mouth to any man, never shared her lips willingly. He knew that absolutely, sensed the truth in her untutored response, read it in her lack of guile. But she was rising to him, her passion, her desire, answering his call, sweet as the dew on a crisp spring morning, virginal as snow on an inaccessible peak. He could reach her- she would be his. But there was no need for any hurry. She was untouched, unused to the demands of a man's hands, a man's lips, much less a man's body; if he pressed too fast, she'd turn skittish and balk. And he'd have to work harder to bring her to his bed. Angling his head over hers, he kept every caress slow, every plundering stroke deliberate. Passion lay heavy, languid, almost somnolent between them; as he claimed every sweet inch of the softness she offered him, he laced the heady sensation into every caress, and let it sink into her senses. It would lie there, dormant, until next time he touched her, until he called it forth. He would let it rise by degrees, feed it, nurture it until it became the inescapable compulsion that would, in the end, bring her to him. He would savor her slowly, savor her slow surrender- all the more sweet because the end was never in doubt.

Why did it have to be such a shameful secret? Hadn’t I been potty-trained and taught to chew with my mouth closed? So what was the freaking big deal about having sex? Wasn’t it essential to the survival of our darn, hypocritical species?

When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.

You are so beautiful,” he whispered, kissing her softly on the lips. “I can’t believe I got to have you.” “You’re the only one who has,” Carrie smiled, “And I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Am I in the Forbes 100? Absolutely not, and I'll never be there. But for the first time I make so much money that I feel poor, like I have to cultivate and protect this fortune. But I never had more than $20 in my pocket before RuPaul's Drag Race so I feel so privileged with money, it's terrible. I bought a $300 beige t-shirt today.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].