Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

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

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

If I could get myself in an editing room, that'd be trouble. I mean, that's how it works, you know? You leave everything on the field. I would pick apart - I do, even on the first time. More than once is just too much self-destruction. I don't need that.

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not want somebody to be thinking they knew me based on that. It's like even private citizens have to deal with this persona phenomenon.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

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.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

I like to do different things and, as my actrees career evolves, I will choose roles to do things that I haven't done before. There are a lot of different sides of me, and I'm in a unique position now, for the first time in my career, to decide what direction I want to go in.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

I love the U.S. We came the first time in 2003, and it seems like we haven't left since. James Iha from The Smashing Pumpkins came to Stockholm to see one of our shows, and he really fell in love with the band. He said, "I'm going to take you to America, I'm going to release you on my label." When you're in your early twenties and you get that kind of opportunity, you just gotta roll with it.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

I'm just really happy to be happy for the first time since I was about 20.

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were immigrants, and also because I grew up so isolated from mainstream life, and it was such a total shock to leave the commune and, in a way, enter America for the first time when I was eleven - so I've always felt a little like an anthropologist - like, what is this strange place I find myself in, what are the rules here?

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an indictment of the American culture. I read an interview with one of the members of Sebadoh. He was saying he had just got back from touring Germany for the first time in five years or whatever, and one of the interviewers asked him, "Why aren't you still relevant?

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

I personally love lingerie. I've been buying, shopping and modeling in lingerie for 10 plus years. So, for women who are shopping for the first time, I'd say start with the basics and work your way up. Definitely buy a variety and start with something that is comfortable and then work your way up to more flirty and lacey pieces. Comfort is key.

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do so. The main difference between the protests of 2011-2012 and these protests today is that they didn't have permits. These were - the people who were coming out into the streets were very young people, for the most part, who knew that they were all risking arrest. It's an extraordinary event.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had butterflies. You know, the Obamas were sitting out there, the Supreme Court, Maya Angelou, and Desmond Tutu for God's sake, all in the front row.