First Time Quotations

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that,

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

Addams Family blew my mind because it was the first time I was in L.A. and Hollywood, and I grew up a huge fan of movies.

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains. I went to Ruapehu and for the first time I saw snow. I had never seen snow before and for 10 days the group of us had a marvellous time.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.

I think that tri [to Ram Bahadur Bomjon] was the first time I'd even seen something that made me think, or really feel: "Ah, I don't know what's really going on in the world - I think I do, and it feels like I do, but whatever is really going on is, de facto, beyond the scope of my comprehension - the best we can do is look for hints." I'd known that intellectually before but that was the first time I really believed it viscerally.

WHEN YOU MEET SOMEBODY FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU'RE NOT MEETING THEM. YOU'RE MEETING THEIR REPRESENTATIVE.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

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

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

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more

You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

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

I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

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

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.

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

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

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

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.

There's a first time for everything when I'm involved.

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

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

[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.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

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

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

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.