First Quotes

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.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

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."

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

The United States has many great diplomats, but there is truly no better ambassador for our country than our beautiful First Lady, Melania. Thank you, Melania.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

I actually am always a music first person

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.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

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.

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

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

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

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."

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

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

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

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.

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.

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 was the first person to go to university from my family.

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

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'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon.

For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it - we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool.

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.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

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

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.