The First Quotes
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.
On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.
Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.
She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.
It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place
To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
