I First Quotes
891 I First quotes by 771 unique authors
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I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a…
— Dashiell Hammett
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And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If…
— Terry Pratchett
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Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
— Neal Shusterman
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When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but i persevered because like you trying to a do a…
— Tina Fey
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only…
— Khalil Gibran
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She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since...since the minute I first saw you.
— C.C. Hunter
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When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even…
— Margaret Stohl
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It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to…
— Suzanne Collins
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We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer…
— Taylor Swift
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When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that…
— Cassandra Clare
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When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means,…
— Francine Pascal
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had…
— Anais Nin
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
— David Bowie
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Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here…
— William Shakespeare
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When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning…
— Madeline Miller
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When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I…
— Jenny Downham
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My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person,…
— Stephen Fry
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[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's…
— George Carlin
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I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of…
— Lauren Oliver
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I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.
— Kiersten White
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses…
— John Muir
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I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind…
— Nora Roberts
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I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen…
— James A. Baldwin
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