The First Quotes
The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.
Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.
I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.
This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.
Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.
She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.