We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of WEEKS ago and it was the FIRST time I really felt the GROUP was really a band in the sense of something I COULD write for.

For the first time FEDERAL, STATE and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their EFFORT, to serve as eyes and EARS and protect US against further attacks.

I LOVED the Brazilian music I played. But this is FINALLY me. For the FIRST TIME I think it's REALLY me.

The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this FASCINATION with him. My COUSIN showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't GET over that this was a white guy singing.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one GENERATION literally has the power to DESTROY the past, the present and the FUTURE, the power to bring time to an END.

I REMEMBER the FIRST TIME I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it MEANS 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

The FIRST time you marry for love, the SECOND for money, and the THIRD for companionship.

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.

The 2004 ELECTION marks the FIRST time in modern POLITICAL HISTORY that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

I was a freshman at Stanford University the first TIME someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and EVEN though I didn't KNOW what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I MUST have smirked or shrugged, which made him LAUGH harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.

There's no environment. Use your IMAGINATION. There's no fourth wall, WHETHER it's the first time you've told this STORY about her life, or the SIXTH time.

We got to the MOON on Christmas Eve 1968, at the END of a poor year for this country. We had VIETNAM. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert KENNEDY and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a BETTER job of raising people's hope.

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the FIRST time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of SOMETHING like that all ALONG. And it happened.

I REMEMBER the FIRST TIME I had sex - I kept the RECEIPT.

Thus again the Netherlands, for the FIRST time since the FALL of Rome, were UNITED under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their SLAVERY to Rome.