I Quotes
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“I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.”
“I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.”
“I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.”
“I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.”
“I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.”
“I always thought I was really thick.”
“I always thought I was singing American folk music.”
“I always thought I was so fit.”
“I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.”
“I always thought I was the finest thing around.”
“I always thought I wasn't afraid to die. No... no one is afraid of death itself. Your pain and suffering is over in an instant. What really makes me suffer... Is seeing you crying over me... From the darkness of the Milky Way.
I'm sorry... Please don't make that face. You look best shdn you're smiling, you know.”
Source: Solanin
“I always thought I wasn't afraid to die. No... No one is afraid of death itself. Your pain and suffering is over in an instant. What really makes me suffer... Is seeing you crying over me... From the darkness of the Milky Way.
I'm sorry... Please don't make that face. You look best when you're smiling, you know.”
Source: Solanin
“I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.”
“I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.”
“I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.”
“I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they’re healthy and happy, that’s the most important thing.”
“I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.”
“I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.”
“I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.”
“I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.”
Source: The Woman Upstairs
“I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.”
“I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'”
Source: Andy Warhol
“I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.”
“I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.”
“I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.”
“I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.”
“I always thought if you really want to be a good actor, you've got to be able to fart in public. That, to me, is the most important. If you are so inhibited that you can't fart, I don't mean around your friends, I mean just a fart, out loud somewhere. I don't mean the 'silent creeper', everybody does that. I mean fart out loud! Just that you can do it and not be afraid of it. Humility is very important.”
“I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.”
“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
Source: The Help
“I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.”
“I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.”
“I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“I always thought it's because children are the one acceptable thing for a woman to want."
"Love," I said. "We can want love."
Stella shook her head. "Not too publicly. Not too much. Then we're a joke.”
Source: The Ballerinas
“I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.”
“I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.”
“I always thought it was better to keep some distance in relationships, avoid commitment. I never took them very seriously. My parents were very good at showing me what not to do but figuring out the opposite has never been easy for me.”
Source: Love Story
“I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“I always thought it was due to liberals are about the collective whereas conservatives are more about individual liberty and responsibility. So it kind of makes sense that liberals are more prone to rally around each other no matter what. It's kind of a hive mind-set.”
“I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.”
“I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.”
“I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."”
“I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.”
“I always thought it was pathetic that Reva had chosen to stay in the area after graduation, but passing through it in the cab, in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I always thought it was remarkable that the oyster coats its enemy not only in something beautiful, but a part of itself. And while diamonds are embraced with warm excitement, regarded to be of highest, deepest value, the pearl is somewhat overlooked. Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It’s clever— the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.”
“I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.”
“I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.”
Source: The Interestings
“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
Source: The Nightingale
“I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on my face at your feet and worship you"-he dropped the towel and reached out, taking me by the shoulders-"and still I want to force ye to your knees before me, and hold ye there wi' me hands tangled in your hair, and your mouth at my service...and I want both things at the same time, Sassenach.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.”
“I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.”