The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
‐‐ Tom Verlaine
The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.
‐‐ Michael Hastings
The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
‐‐ Billy Preston
The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
‐‐ Gordie Howe
The first time I performed musically, I threw up.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.
‐‐ Chili Davis
The first time I played a killer, in the 1997 film 'Mojo,' I went to my local video shop and got out a video of real executions and a history of the Third Reich. The guy in the shop was giving me a look. I thought this would help, but I don't think it made any difference, and I don't want to see any more executions.
‐‐ Aidan Gillen
The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
‐‐ Gary McCord
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
‐‐ Ray Romano
The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.
‐‐ Ruben Blades
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
‐‐ George Gissing
The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
‐‐ Peter Coyote
The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.
‐‐ Claire Danes
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'
‐‐ Theophilus London
The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
‐‐ Scott Turow
The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
‐‐ David Millar
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
‐‐ Laura Mvula
The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
‐‐ Alessia Cara
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
‐‐ Fred Allen
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.
‐‐ Cecilia Bartoli
The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
‐‐ Jose Andres
The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.
‐‐ Steve Harvey
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel
The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
‐‐ Rachel G. Fox
The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz
The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.
‐‐ Jennifer Lynch
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
‐‐ Joan Rivers
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
‐‐ Barton Gellman
The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
‐‐ Leon Bridges
The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake.
‐‐ Li Na
The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
‐‐ LeBron James
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
‐‐ Pico Iyer
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.
‐‐ Criss Angel
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
‐‐ Ranbir Kapoor
The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
‐‐ Kristian Bush
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.
‐‐ Tom Petty
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk
The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.
‐‐ Jonas Armstrong
The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario
The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.
‐‐ Eileen Myles
The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.
‐‐ Carroll Shelby
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
‐‐ Nastia Liukin
The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
‐‐ T. D. Jakes
The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
‐‐ Bobby Flay
The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
‐‐ Luke Evans
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall
The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.
‐‐ Jay Electronica
The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
‐‐ Kim Novak
The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci