First Time Quotes

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.

When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.

The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything.

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

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.

The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, My big sister is asking me?

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member of the Republican Guard coming together to cart off a big screen TV.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

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

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

For the first time I feel really free.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

I don't like scary films. I watched Psycho for the first time recently, alone in the house at night. That was a mistake. I had to call my friend to come over.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

There are some women, we have to admit this, there's some women who support Hillary Clinton simply because they think it's great that a woman might be elected president for the first time.

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!