When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.
One of the most overwhelming things about dating is imagining going on an entire dinner date for an evening with someone you don't even know you have chemistry with yet.
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
Eight and twenty canoes, full of men, women and children seemingly very glad of our coming …. The people of the country came aboard of us and making show of love, and gave us tobacco and Indian wheat, and departed for that night; but we durst not trust them.
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.
The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
It's rare that I go on a first date and don't want to go out again.
The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.
When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.
The first three times we met, I don't think I remembered anything. I was just in this daze like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm sitting here with Paul Reubens.' And I kept almost calling him Pee-wee.
There's no fun in relationships. OK - that's not strictly true. I will agree that the first bit can be not totally unpleasant. There's the initial meeting and the heart quickening and the stomach-churning excitement of it all.
We've talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we've never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.
