Best 210 quotes in «first time quotes» category

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

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 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 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'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 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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.