The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.