First Quotes

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.

The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

We have first lady Michelle Obama on the show tonight. As you'd expect, security's been pretty tight. On my way in I got five pat-downs, and that was just from Joe Biden.

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

If it's the first kiss, it's important for the eyes to be closed so you know it's real. It's almost like a Disney movie!

Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

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

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

Family comes first for me in every single way.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.