“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasPastLinesApproachFirst TimeNew IdeasRecurrence Author:Robert Hass
“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.” PeopleYearsFirstsBelieveI CanKidsLastsPastCrazyFirst TimeRedCamerasWorkersAidsNosesLast TimeCrewFamineEthiopia Author:Lenny Henry
“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.” FirstsHeartSoulFeelingsLightTogetherPastNamesSpeakDutyReflectionConscienceFirst TimeBreathsPassionateFacultyIntensityPassionate Love Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.” FirstsLooksLongHas BeensRealityPastSpeakLanguageWishPhotographyFirst TimeImpressionPast Experiences Author:Ernst Haas