Firsts Quote by Esther Williams

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

— William Scranton

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to…

— Paul Laffoley

I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine…

— Edward Hirsch

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.

— Richelle Mead

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included…

— Cynthia Ozick

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

— Dave Eggers

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of…

— Ingmar Bergman

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book…

— Samuel Pepys

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I…

— Nipsey Hussle

It was the craziest period of my life: I was getting ready for the baccalaureate, the phone was ringing off the hook, I visited…

— Raphael Varane

He looked on the mountaintops, he looked in the valleys, he looked at the bottom of the sea. He looked on the moon, he…

— Joseph Carlson

And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I…

— Jay Asher