Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

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.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well. Be the best at what you can do for that particular job in life. That always resonated with me.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

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

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Success only hurts 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.

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.

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.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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