The First Quotes

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.