Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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?

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.