First Person Quotes

249 quotes by 219 authors

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people… — Scott Adams
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes… — Ambrose Bierce
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call. — Ben Affleck
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. — Tom Bodett
I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why… — Gisele Bundchen
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world… — Meg Cabot
Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to get there. If you believe… — Edith Schaeffer
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… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time. — Swami Satchidananda
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the… — Vanderlei Luxemburgo
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser
A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person… — Wanderlei Silva
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my… — George R. R. Martin
Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait. — Paulo Coelho
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby

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