The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
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.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
'Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.
I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.
Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.'
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.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
