First Person Quotes

249 First Person quotes by 210 unique authors

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! — Jasper Fforde
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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… — Jerry Spinelli
and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name,… — Sara Zarr
What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your… — Jodi Picoult
She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle… — Rachel Caine
you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect) — Diana Gabaldon
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. — Michel de Montaigne
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… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a… — Carrie Vaughn
Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me that… — E.D. Baker
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. — Jodi Picoult
I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay? — Stephen Chbosky
Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried… — Rob Sheffield
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 pay… — Cecelia Ahern
What happened, then? You're stomping through every puddle you can find and look like you're going to punch the first person you see." "Why are… — Richelle Mead
A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must… — Martha Stout
Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said… — Chelsea Handler
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… — Anne Rice
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… — Ellen Hopkins
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… — Augusten Burroughs
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process," she said in her speech. "I was completely the eager beaver in school, I… — Emma Watson
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when… — Andrea Gibson

Who Wrote These First Person Quotes

210 authors contributed a total of 249 First Person Quotes, led by these top contributors: