“A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.” WantFeelsShouldFirstsHappensFirst TimeConservative Author:Mort Sahl
“I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun. The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun. I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsTwoCultureOpportunityFunFirst TimeLeavingPlanesTwo DaysNew CulturesAlways Leaving Author:Adriana Lima
“Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?” FirstsTerribleFirst TimeAdolescence Author:John Irving
“There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.” FirstsThousandHundredFirst Time Author:Christian Morgenstern
“My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the wood stove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.” MenFeelsTryingFirstsDoeSaidStillsHomeNightFeltParentFirst TimeChosenSatChairsDescriptionAccurateLapOne NightHomesickSobbingChosen OneStepfathers Author:Sarah Silverman
“The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.” PeopleWorldWantFirstsWarAmericaNumbersHappenedTruth IsFirst TimeConcernedSignificantWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IRefugeeSignificant Numbers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.” FirstsImportantSelfFeelingsValuesGivenWrittenTalentEgoFirst TimeImportant ThingsProvenSelf RelianceRelianceSense Of SelfBoon Author:Rod Serling
“I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.” ThinkingMenFirstsMadeSexEnjoyBrainCoupleFirst TimeBlowDrawingBrokeIdiotBarriersAvenuesGalleryIntercourseX MenHaving SexMadisonMadison Avenue Author:Betty Dodson
“The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the B side of their first record. I think it was "I Want to ... I Want to Hold Your Hand". And it, it really sounded different to me. And it sounded a bit like trouble, like this is something new 'cause I very rarely paid any attention to what anyone else was doing.” ThinkingWantFirstsDifferentHandsCausesBitsSidesAttentionRecordsTroubleHeardCarFirst TimePaidSomething New Author:Jeff Barry
“I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.” FirstsAgeStreetsFirst TimeTwentiesJailFifteenAnd OffLowlifes Author:Patricia McConnell
“Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.” ThinkingFirstsLongMadeSidesLong TimeFirst TimeCatholicTriumphLiberalismPope Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.” YearsFirstsBookAbleOrderThreeFoundSocialLinesBrainGrowingMediaCoupleInternetPagesFirst TimeDirectDown AndSocial MediaWanderInabilityStimulationLatentSynapses Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.” IfsWayYearsFirstsRealHappensRememberPoliticalWaitingRealizingLevelsFieldsMinesBecomingLuckySittingFirst TimeVictimGuidesPassingPassingsDesertDramaticMechanismSixtySeventiesEightyIrreparablePassing By Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed to me that that might have brought them to some essence of language. Once I "saw" the city, I knew it was real. once I saw that a poem was a house, i knew it was real and could go back to it or else write a flurry of poems around it, both worked.” WritingFirstsRealMightHouseLanguageCitiesSawsFirst TimeEssenceSpokesAdamEden Author:Gregory Orr
“I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsPlayCharacterFeelingsRunningAbleCertainActingEmotionExpressionFirst TimeRunning AwayPirateGood WayFreedom Of ExpressionNinja Author:Adam Beach
“Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."” KnowsWayFirstsMadeSaidRealJobsGrowsFeltParentRealizingChallengesLossActingEmotionSadnessGrewDevelopmentGrew UpFirst TimePersonal DevelopmentDialogueSmokeSignalsSadness And AngerSmoke Signals Author:Adam Beach
“What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.” FirstsArtCan DoConsciousnessFictionArt IsFirst TimeNarrativeConstructsNarrative Art Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.” FirstsEndsPlayMomentsPainSufferingSongWeekMonthsFirst TimeSpendingWorth ItPain And Suffering Author:Five for Fighting
“The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.” FirstsLongHomeLeftCausesBoysTerribleLong TimeFirst TimeWeightPressureBlueGuiltShockSixteenGood Long Author:Kate Christensen
“You never get another first time. I just remember being excited and that feeling of "Wow my dream is really coming true".” FirstsFeelingsDreamRememberFirst TimeExcitedWow Author:Brooke Valentine
“I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.” FirstsHardPlayKidsCertainListeningMusicianFirst TimeBlowSexySupremeHolesTennessee Author:Annie E. Clark
“I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.” FirstsRememberSoundRecordsFirst TimeWaveHearingComing OutFloridaConfusingFranklinSoundtracksIndescribableBabysitter Author:John Vanderslice
“Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.” FirstsLooksIdeasWould BePainSongFeltPlansWrittenMonthsExpectationsFirst TimeHammers Author:Frank Iero
“The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.” WayWritingYearsFirstsFoundFictionClassFirst TimeFiction WritingSophomoreSophomore Year Author:John Brandon
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindStillsMovingEasyParentKnow HowCallingTaxesFirst TimeTwentiesAll KindsTeenagerBreezy Author:Katy Perry
“I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!” FirstsRememberSeeingStyleFirst TimeJeansComing BackFittingWardrobe Author:Elle Fanning
“I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.” FirstsFacesSongRecordsSawsFirst TimeFolksTrackSingersYour Face Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I was on Instagram or something and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, "Oh, my god!" I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.” FirstsIdeasCommunityFiguresFirst TimeI RealizedNo IdeaLgbtInstagramArtworkTagged Author:Alycia Debnam Carey
“The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsFirstsKindLittlesPersonsEndsBitsLove IsPowerfulWorryCrazyLittle BitFirst TimeDatingSurrenderThe End Of The DayPantsFunny ThingsRight Person Author:Zella Day
“When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the council estate into our own house and for the first time in my life, I had a little spare money.” FirstsLittlesJobsHouseOfficeFirst TimeMovedFortunePhotographerSparesEstatesCouncilGave UpOffice JobsProfessional PhotographerCouncil Estates Author:Derek Ridgers
“I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsLooksNextGoneMinutesHavensChangedGiving UpFirst TimeStudiosPianoThrill Author:Elton John
“I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first time in my life and my whole hand was black, and there was no way to even think of getting a rabies shot without driving for five days, and then you wouldn't have wanted that needle in your skin anyway. And I had my period. Everything was wrong at one time. Like, I couldn't have been more uncomfortable. And I stayed up - it was too cold to sleep.” ThinkingWayFirstsHas BeensWholeHandsWantedBlackSleepSituationFiveDogColdPeriodsShotsFirst TimeSkinsSickExtremesDrivingUncomfortableOne TimeNeedlesMongoliaRabiesBronchitisDysentery Author:Pam Houston
“When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.” FirstsBornDaughterFirst TimeMy DaughterCried Author:Boots Riley
“A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.” PeopleFirstsBlackCommunityHeardFirst TimeRapJuiceNothing NewGinRap MusicBlack Community Author:Boots Riley
“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"” FeelsFirstsLooksI CanImportantUsedSongCan DoMillionsHeardRocksListeningBandSingingFirst TimeBottomRadioHearingMelodyWowTeensNerdListening To MusicBassOutputFoliageMachetesOldies Author:Kelly Hogan
“I had been at Comic-Con, and I have the same manager as Bob Morley, so we ended up at a Warner Bros. party. I met Jason Rothenberg for the first time, and he's a fan of Black Sails and Shameless and some of my work, and was like, "Hey, we've been having trouble casting this part. I think you'd be perfect for it, if you'd be willing to come up and have some fun for some episodes."” IfsThinkingFirstsFunBlackPerfectPartyTroubleFansWillingMetsFirst TimeCome UpHeyManagersComicBobEpisodesSailCastingJasonShamelessBrosComic ConWarner Bros Author:Zach McGowan
“When I met someone who I thought was really talented, I would just be like, Wow! How did you get that way? And I met a lot of people who would just do anything to claw their way to the top, and it was just shocking and awful for me to see that for the first time. And now I live in Manhattan so I have become desensitized to that.” PeopleWayFirstsMetsFirst TimeAwfulWowShockingManhattanClaws Author:Larkin Grimm
“You meet a lot of people [in Dubai] coming from a lot of different places. Even me, I'm always in transit. I don't stay anywhere too long. I like the energy that I found when I came here the first time. I start knowing people, and people start knowing me as well.” PeopleFirstsWellsLongDifferentFoundEnergyKnowingFirst TimeDifferent PlaceDubai Author:eL Seed
“The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."” PeopleThinkingFirstsSaidI CanWholeRememberFacesReadingAudienceSeeingFirst TimeIntroductionWhisperingSigningUgh Author:Adrian Tomine
“And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.” PeopleFirstsConsciousnessModernStyleIdentityFirst TimeInstrumentsSouthernExplosionsBanjos Author:Bela Fleck
“Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.” FirstsShowsEnjoyLaughingFirst TimeMeetingsReputationIntimidatingGreat TimesAnnaSmile And LaughValentino Author:Owen Wilson
“In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.” KnowsFirstsGrewLateFirst TimeAppropriateTeensPhasesDowntownEarly 20s Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in, conversations, sleep, mood, everything. However, there are many nights when the stars align and I feel like both the story teller and the stranger in the crowd, hearing it all for the very first time.” PeopleFeelsFirstsDifferentStoriesNightStarsSleepCitiesInvolvedMetsConversationFirst TimePerformancesCrowdsStrangerHearingMoodWeatherFactors Author:Dia Frampton
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLooksLittlesWarSelfBigsMightLife IsUsedVoicePowerfulWonderfulTaughtBearsFirst TimeTransformationAskingPrisonMetaphorImpressedWriting LifeHollowObjectionsSelf Transformation Author:Sam Hamill
“Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that song playing as a soundtrack to a movie, or even just in the background of someone's life. This all sounds weird, but I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.” FirstsSongSoundImaginationBrainMusic IsFirst TimeAreasActiveBackgroundsSoundtracks Author:Josh McDermitt
“I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.” WritingMindFirstsWellsHandsLostCreativeHappenedTroubleProjectsToughFirst TimePainfulTransitionGetting Lost Author:Melanie Iglesias
“I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to keep the machine moving. It was especially important to me to keep it moving and not be some kind of precious writer-director.” FirstsKindImportantMovingActorsDirectorsFirst TimeMachinesKeep It Moving Author:William Monahan
“As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.” FirstsGuyRealizingSeriousDirectorsFirst TimeOfficersVeteran Author:William Monahan