Firsts Quotes

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.

That's in the First Amendment?

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

American workers are first rate.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only

I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first.

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

Start with scout locations first.