„When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver.“

„And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, kniha Dear John

Zdroj: Dear John

„There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.“

—  Terry Pratchett, kniha I Shall Wear Midnight

Zdroj: I Shall Wear Midnight

„That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.“

—  Siri Hustvedt novelist, essayist, poet 1955

Zdroj: The Blindfold

„I suppose I first got involved in radical politics as a matter of course, during the late 1960s when it was a part of the culture.“

—  Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953

Kontext: I suppose I first got involved in radical politics as a matter of course, during the late 1960s when it was a part of the culture. The counterculture, as we called it then, was very eclectic and all-embracing. It included fashions of dress, styles of music, philosophical positions, and, inevitably, political positions. And although there would be various political leanings coming to the fore from time to time, I suppose that the overall consensus political standpoint was probably an anarchist one. Although probably back in those days, when I was a very young teenager, I didn’t necessarily put it into those terms. I was probably not familiar enough with the concepts of anarchy to actually label myself as such. It was later, as I went into my twenties and started to think about things more seriously that I came to a conclusion that basically the only political standpoint that I could possibly adhere to would be an anarchist one.
It furthermore occurred to me that, basically, anarchy is in fact the only political position that is actually possible. I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention the idea of anarchy to most people they will tell you what a bad idea it is because the biggest gang would just take over. Which is pretty much how I see contemporary society. We live in a badly developed anarchist situation in which the biggest gang has taken over and have declared that it is not an anarchist situation – that it is a capitalist or a communist situation. But I tend to think that anarchy is the most natural form of politics for a human being to actually practice. All it means, the word, is no leaders. An-archon. No leaders.
And I think that if we actually look at nature without prejudice, we find that this is the state of affairs that usually pertains.

„When I write, I solemnly visit myself.“

—  Fernando Pessoa, kniha The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 287
The Book of Disquiet
Originál: Quando escrevo, visito-me solenemente.

„If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892

„I never thought that I could be so proud to be Quebecer.“

—  René Lévesque Quebec politician 1922 - 1987

http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/d/d9/Rene_Levesque%2C_Fier_d%27etre_Quebecois.wav
Je n'ai jamais pensé que je pourrais être aussi fier d'être Québécois.
Victory speech, 1976 Quebec election.

„I see again what I thought I saw the first time, when I sent forth the little book that was compared to and in fact could best be compared to “a humble little flower under the cover of the great forest”“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

Preface Three Discourses at Friday Communion November 14, 1849 Hong translation 1997 P. 111 (From Without Authority)
1840s, Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1849)

„I thought what would I give, if it could be true
If I could ever feel again the way I felt when I read you“

—  Hank Green American vlogger 1980

This is not Harry Potter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZaCxfiUHs
Songs

„When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.“

—  Jeffrey Bernard British journalist 1932 - 1997

Reach for the Ground: the Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard (Duckworth: London, 2002) (p. 159)

„When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal — it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just "too much"“

—  John Lydon English singer, songwriter, and musician 1956

but that's exactly what drew me in.
On Kate Bush's first hit, "Wuthering Heights"
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

„Aye, I suppose I could stay up that late.“

—  James Clerk Maxwell Scottish physicist 1831 - 1879

Maxwell, on being told on his arrival at Cambridge University that there would be a compulsory 6 a.m. church service, as quoted in Spice in Science : The Best of Science Funnies (2006) by K. Krishna Murty

„At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did bear it. The question remains: how?“

—  Heinrich Heine German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797 - 1856

An Karl von U.

„I was really intimidated, but then the acting kicks in. We have a similar fire, so he doesn't intimidate me in that way; I can get really angry, I can get in your face too.“

—  Rene Russo actress, model 1954

On acting with Al Pacino; Interview on RopeofSilicon with Laremy Legel, Friday, October 7th 2005 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/features/twoforthemoney/russo.php

„For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.“

—  John Steinbeck American writer 1902 - 1968

Journal entry (11 June 1938), published in Working Days : The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1938-1941 (1990) edited by Robert DeMott

„When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos…“

—  Anne Fadiman American essayist, journalist and magazine editor 1953

Zdroj: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

„.. I thought I had come into the clear in art when for the first time I was able to apply an abstract style to nature.“

—  Paul Klee German Swiss painter 1879 - 1940

Paul Klee, in an autobiographical text for Wilhelm Hausenstein, 1919; as quoted in 'Klee & Kandinsky', 2015 exhibition text, Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich, 2015-2016 https://www.zpk.org/en/exhibitions/review_0/2015/klee-kandinsky-969.html
1916 - 1920

„When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.“

—  Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004

interview by Suzan Campbell, May 15, 1989; transcript in 'Archives of American Art', The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
One of her first grid paintings she made in New York in 1964, it was [ https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78361 titled 'The Tree']. Martin often described this painting as her first grid. In fact, she had been making them since at least the beginning of 1960's
1980 - 2000

„I was so disappointed at first [visiting the pyramids in Egypt, in her 20s], because they looked so small, but then when you approached them, they got so big. It's an amazing effect.“

—  Isa Genzken German sculptor 1948

after 2010, No, It Isn't Supposed to Be Easy' (2013)