I Quotes
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“I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.”
“I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
“I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the colors, I don't need to be guided by words. I draw them and the meaning comes after. Every time we would start a new sequence we would change everything.”
“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”
“I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.”
“I draw whatever hits me.”
“I dread dinner with Father. I dread his suffocating shroud of silence. I dread his end-of-day rituals. Most of all, I detest what comes last: his lock-up-for-the-night clatter. These sounds rasp my already fragile nerves. Click, clang, grind, zing, clap, schlik: horrid sounds.”
Source: Persianality
“I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.”
“I dread it, but you know, I get to feeling sorry for myself, and then I think of you and remember it could be worse.”
Source: La Correspondante
“I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.”
“I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear”
Source: Selected poems
“I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.”
“I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.”
“I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.”
Source: God in the Dock
“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.”
Source: The woman in white
“I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.”
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.”
“I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.”
“I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope”
Source: Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin
“I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.”
Source: A Promise of Fire
“I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.”
“I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.”
“I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction”
Source: Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996
“I dream [a cartoon] into being by imagining how I want it to be. I lead with my imagination and, inevitably, the brush follows.”
“I dream a dream that dreams back at me.”
“I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me.”
“I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.”
“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.”
“I Dream a world lot of colorful Butterfly's every ware. Because Butterfly's can live only in non polluted world.”
“I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950
“I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.”
“I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.”
“I dream about going back, but I know that it isn't easy. Thirty years of being in Europe has changed my life. I am not the Kurd from Syria anymore as I was before. Kurdistani Syria developed somewhere, and I developed elsewhere. I think we will not find each other easily again. If I go back I will be a foreigner in my own country now. But of course it remains a dream to make another movie in Syria, and I am waiting for that opportunity.”
“I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.”
“I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.”
“I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other. I dream about people who would only ever kiss you on the cheek.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“I dream about running all the time.”
“I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.”
“I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.”
“I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.”
“I dream and then i draw my dream whether it is real or not is not my responsbility.”
“I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.”
“I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.”
Source: Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller
“I dream endlessly, my minstrel,' he said. 'I live in my dreams - they are the only thing this emptiness has not touched. Oh sometimes they are black and dreadful, nightmares from the pit. ... But most of them are wonderful, full of happiness and lost joy, and delight in making and being. Without my dreams, I should have gone mad long ago.'
'Ah,' Gwion said wryly, 'that is true of many men in this world.”
Source: Silver on the Tree
“I dream for a living.”
“I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.”
“I dream
for an absentee and oft maligned
device—the accident-maker,
the soul-taker, my camera;
its factory guaranteed
third eye, without which I am duly dim
and memory denied. No pictures
for my contrived Arbus to declare,
excepting some stitch of Sexton
manages these sentences
of despair.”