First Time Quotes

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

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

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

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.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

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.

Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month." I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.