Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

Success only hurts the first time.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

The first time I went to the Oscars was surreal. It wasn't really me walking the red carpet. It was like watching a movie of a Hollywood premiere. You have to have an intellectual distance from it, because it's so atypical from your everyday life.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I didn't notice the first time. The art of making records is something like this: you want to provide a multiplicity of experience in a single object, which is to say you want layers so that people can revisit and have something revealed to them that wasn't apparent the first time. We often will listen to the same music over and over again, and that tells you something, too.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.