And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
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.
If I could get myself in an editing room, that'd be trouble. I mean, that's how it works, you know? You leave everything on the field. I would pick apart - I do, even on the first time. More than once is just too much self-destruction. I don't need that.
[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.
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.
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.
'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.
…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young. . . or the old.
I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well. Be the best at what you can do for that particular job in life. That always resonated with me.
I've met presidents, but I've never performed for one. I said it was the first time in 50 years I actually had butterflies. You know, the Obamas were sitting out there, the Supreme Court, Maya Angelou, and Desmond Tutu for God's sake, all in the front row.
I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.
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.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
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.
We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.