First Time Quotes

• The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Humanity

• For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Happiness
  • Habit
  • First Time

• The first time I smoked weed was with Demi [Lovato] and Miley [Cyrus]. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, ‘Try it! Try it!’ so I gave it a shot, and it was all right. I don’t even smoke weed that often anymore.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • First Time
  • Smoked
  • Try It

• For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• The Angels are a team that gives you an opportunity always to be in the playoffs. This time, my first time with them, I was very close to getting to the World Series, so why not stay?

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Opportunity
  • Angels
  • Playoffs

• Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Time
  • Writing
  • She

• The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

  

  George Benson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Said

• The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moments

• I switched to thoughts of the play. It was by far the healthiest item to concentrate on. Rehearsals were only days away; there is something wildly exciting about a company assembling for the first time on stage. There is also something strangely sexy about it. I can't pin it down, there just is.

  

  James Kirkwood
  • Stage
  • First Time
  • Assembling

• When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • College
  • Singing
  • First Time

• I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Meetings

• Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

  

  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  • Tiresome
  • New Look
  • Get Tiring

• The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • War

• 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.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Remember
  • United States
  • Mess Up

• I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Time
  • Firsts

• I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. Because second time is like, 'OK, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Bad
  • Horrible
  • First Time

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

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • Auditions

• This isn't the first time this has happened to us. We weren't prepared and we've come through each time.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Prepared
  • First Time

• It was the first time she'd seen us in four years. Before the doors opened, I went round looking at the V.I.P. section, and I saw that Madonna had the best table in the house and my mum's table was way in the back. I thought, 'I'm not having this,' so I swapped the signs on the tables around. So, Madonna was at the back, and my mum had the best table in the house, between U2 and R.E.M. And that's exactly how it should be.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Signs
  • Madonna
  • VIP Section

• Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • America
  • Right
  • Led Zeppelin

• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • Gone

• The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Whitney Houston

• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

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