Top 100 The First Person Quotes
#1. I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
Penn Jillette
#2. Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.
Matt Mullenweg
#3. When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
Daphne Du Maurier
#4. Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose ...
Jeff Hawkins
#5. I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.
Stephen King
#6. Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
Aaron Sorkin
#7. But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now ... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.
Robert Sikoryak
#8. I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever, not right now.
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.
Jodi Picoult
#9. My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.
Hafez Nazeri
#10. There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along ...
Rainer Maria Rilke
#11. I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
Jodi Picoult
#12. The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?
Anne Rice
#13. As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
Clive Granger
#14. I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
John Carmack
#15. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.
Simon Wood
#16. Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.
Tim O'Reilly
#17. I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.
Richard Fleeshman
#18. If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
Andrew Mason
#19. Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
Orhan Pamuk
#20. When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.
Larry Ellison
#21. My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
Dean Norris
#22. Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)
Dorothy L. Sayers
#23. I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Art Alexakis
#24. In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.
Tracy Kidder
#25. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas
#26. Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
Jim Gaffigan
#27. We?' said Chancellor.
'I am lavishly paid,' Danny said, 'to think in the first person plural.
Dorothy Dunnett
#28. On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.
Shahrnush Parsipur
#29. The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61
Tom Wolfe
#30. You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'
Maya Rudolph
#31. Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
Damien Chazelle
#32. The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
Ian McKellen
#33. I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.
Rick Moody
#34. I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.
Joan Didion
#35. I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch
#36. The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
Paul Theroux
#37. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.
Cathie Black
#38. People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.
Tiki Barber
#39. Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
Laetitia Casta
#41. The identification of any object in the first-person case is ruled out by the enterprise of scientific explanation. So science cannot tell me who I am, let alone where, when, or how.
Roger Scruton
#42. Are you the first person to have this problem? You have to get up and hustle. Everybody is hustling, Lagos is about hustling, Nneoma said.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#43. I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.
Monica Lewinsky
#44. I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.
Anne Rice
#45. I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
Cameron Crowe
#46. Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.
Ellen Hopkins
#47. Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr
#48. We have a choice in our lives. We can be content with where we are, or we can set goals and continue to push ourselves beyond our limits. I'm ready to keep doing that. I want to be the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.
Bonner Paddock
#50. Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.
Mary Harron
#51. The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.
Jodi Picoult
#52. Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
M.I.A.
#53. He's the first person I want to tell when somebody upsets me; my foot pressing on the accelerator, desperate to get home from work just to tell him, the moment I tell him, the moment his face lights up with fury on my behalf, it's better, it's fixed.
Liane Moriarty
#55. When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
Kenny Loggins
#56. The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae ... I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebra, for this art has been practiced for thousands of years.
Daniel D. Palmer
#57. I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.
Chris Cosentino
#58. There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
Drake
#59. If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
Zachary Levi
#60. Even when people didn't think I was the real champion, I got called out anyway. So now when you get a good win the first person people think of is me. I guess they thought it would be easy, but nothing comes easy.
Danny Garcia
#61. Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.
Jerry Spinelli
#62. I was born with the Sight, Ink," she said, voice trembling. "So tell me, why were you the first person I'd ever seen from the Twixt?"
They stared at each other. His answer slipped through his lips.
"Because I saw you," he confessed. "And I couldn't look away.
Dawn Metcalf
#63. If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck
#64. The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because ... " and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.
Allen Ginsberg
#65. I make mistakes and I move on. That's what I do, that's what I've always done. I leave, and other people leave. You're the first person in my whole life who stayed. And then you were taken away. But now you're here again ... and you're trying to leave me. That fucking hurts, too.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#66. For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
Chang-rae Lee
#67. I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.
Alan Dershowitz
#68. Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.'
Aimee Mullins
#69. Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.
Jack Kerouac
#70. You seem to think you're insignificant, but the truth is you're so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can't be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won't be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.
Ai Mi
#71. Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
Brian Greene
#72. Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school. Schools
Joe Hill
#73. The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
Anne Tyler
#74. I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#75. As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.
Norman Lock
#76. The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.
Marc Parent
#77. If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too.
Shamcey Supsup
#78. The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.
Mary Gaitskill
#79. Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.
Paulo Coelho
#80. I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.
Jenny Slate
#81. The first person who is on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your happiness or pain.
Reader's Digest Association
#82. You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.
Bryant McGill
#83. The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
Andrew Sullivan
#84. I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.
Sky Ferreira
#85. I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
Minnie Driver
#86. Good Lord. The first person she sees is Mick Drummond, with his ancient bobbing head. Would that man never die? Was he immortal? Was he real?
Liane Moriarty
#87. A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
Dan Gilroy
#88. If you are uneasy about a relationship, ask yourself, Does this relationship breed more togetherness or more isolation within me? If you feel alone in the relationship, that's not a good sign. But remem-ber: the first person to look at is yourself.
Henry Cloud
#89. Finn gave a soft laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'I think you're the first person to actually apologise for inflicting pain. Usually it's someone's hobby.
Tabitha McGowan
#90. I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?
Stephen Chbosky
#91. I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle ...
Questlove
#92. My chest rising and falling with
my impatience. I was going to be the first person in history to ever die from lust. Female blue balls.
T.M. Frazier
#93. I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
Felix Baumgartner
#94. I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.
King Tuff
#95. No thanks," I answered, "I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.
John Zakour
#96. When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me."
That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
Augusten Burroughs
#97. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#98. This had to stop or I was going to have an aneurism. In my dick. I'd be the first person on the planet to die from an aneurism in the penis. I'd be famous, but for all the wrong reasons.
Renae Kaye
#99. He who harbors hate is the first person to be injured by it.
He who harbors love is the first person to benefit from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.
Robbie Amell
