„"The first time you saw me, I bet you didn't think, He's going to get me killed."
"The first time I saw you, I wished you'd go back to Idris. You know I don't like change."
"I grew on you, though."
"Eventually. Like a moss, or a skin disease."“

„You asked me who I belong to," he whispered. "I belong to. Your blood is my blood, your bones my bones. The first time you saw me, I looked familiar, didn't I? Just like you looked familiar to me.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

„Like I say, the first time I saw Steve I was never havin' a go, it was just, 'oh that's different' but you know, Steve, I was never havin' a go, it's just that thing, 'oh right interesting“

—  Karl Pilkington English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer 1972

Podcast Series 1 Episode 6
On Stephen Merchant

„From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Glass

Variant: Since the first time i saw you, I've belonged to you completely.
Source: City of Glass

„Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.“

—  Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

„Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.“

—  Sylvia Day American writer 1973

Source: Entwined with You

„You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.“

—  Sam Shepard, Fool for Love

Source: Fool for Love

„He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.“

—  Hilary Mantel, book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

„You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.“

—  Christopher Moore, book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Biff, in Ch. 1
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)

„You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.“

—  Anthony Horowitz, book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

„You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right“

—  Jack Canfield American writer 1944

„Roger [Goodell] said he didn't want me in the scrip club. I was like, well, you know, I don't think there's nothing wrong with going to the scrip club. It ain't no sin to go to the scrip club, you know. I was just being rebellion.“

—  Adam Jones (American football)

Interview with Michael Irvin on The Michael Irvin Show on KESN radio, March 25, 2008
In this interview Jones pronounced "strip club" as "scrip club" and is often quoted as such. Pacman Jones on going to the "scrip" club http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HMA5YD0jsk, Youtube, Retrieved 2010-08-15.

„Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

„And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you'd listened to me.“

—  Cinda Williams Chima Novelist 1952

Source: The Exiled Queen

„I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!“

—  Sally Field American actress 1946

Said during Field's Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in 1984's Places in the Heart
Often misquoted as "You like me, you really like me!"
The misquote was echoed by Sean Penn in his 1996 acceptance of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in Dead Man Walking as, "You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!"
[Waxman, Sharon, The Oscar Acceptance Speech: By and Large, It's a Lost Art, Washington Post, 1999-03-21, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/oscars/speeches.htm, 2006-12-31]

„No. I've always known just who you are. Ever since the first time I saw you getting off the ship from Idris, when you were ten years old-you walked into my heart, just as my own children did when they were born.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

Maryse to Jace, pg. 433
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„(On creating) And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."“

—  Robin Williams American actor and stand-up comedian 1951 - 2014

Inside the Actors Studio (2001)

„The first time I saw youI knew it would never lastI'm not half what I wish I wasI'm so angryI don't think it'll ever passAnd I was bad news for you just becauseI never meant to hurt you“

—  Elliott Smith American singer-songwriter 1969 - 2003

Pitseleh.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

„So tell me: how long do you think you can go before you lose it all?
Before they call you bluff and watch you fall?
I don't know, but I'd like to think I had control
At some point, but I let it go and lost my soul“

—  Tomas Kalnoky American musician 1980

"A Moment of Silence," from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003)

„Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.“

—  Jenny Han, book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before