We have gathered here today to honor Benjamin Ripley for…

“Not to be confused with Der Flügel, which is an earlier form of the baby grand piano, the Flugelhorn is a wind instrument akin…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.' Well -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it…

— Cecelia Ahern

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

— Brian Eno

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if…

— Miranda July

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she…

— Martha Stout

“It is said to be the age of the first person singular”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at…

— Chuka Umunna

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb

I was the first person in my family to play baseball.

— Christian Yelich

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.

— The Weeknd