The First Quotes

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

That has always been it for me: family first.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake!

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you are, your heart just melts.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.