Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women 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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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 have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

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

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

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.

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'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.

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 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.

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