First Time Quotes
2420 quotes by 1813 authors
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What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened…
— Don DeLillo
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From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not…
— George Saunders
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The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material
— Robin Williams
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Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given…
— Phyllis Diller
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The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.
— JJ Feild
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I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first…
— Niecy Nash
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
— Barbara Cook
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
— Garry Shandling
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d…
— Eddie Vedder
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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confessed that until recently, he thought the 16-year-old fellow tween idol [Justin Bieber] was a female. 'I only heard…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was…
— June Allyson
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And then the time I was a clown and went to the hospital to visit the children, and I went into a room by myself…
— John Wayne Gacy
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
— Sam Mendes
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The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.
— Pol Pot
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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…
— Richard Rodney Bennett
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When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
— C.S. Lewis
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The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the…
— Knute Rockne
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