I Quotes
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“I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.”
“I envy the people who go to Paris the first time”
“I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'”
“I envy the people who stop eating when they’re stressed. I’m an emotional eater. I eat my feelings, and unfortunately, they aren’t fat free. They taste a lot like Ben and Jerry’s.”
Source: Hating the Boss
“I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.”
“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.”
“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”
Source: Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein
“I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.”
“I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.”
Source: I Want to Show You More
“I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.”
Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain
“I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.”
“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”
Source: The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories
“I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.”
Source: Letters
“I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I envy your heatwave; mine is just an eat wave.”
“I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.”
“I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.”
Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats
“I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.”
“I equals all of the ifs added up over time. The ifs, those are the possibilities; that's infinite for all of us. Every day there are just millions of them. Time, that's finite for each of us; there is no question there. Maybe if you divide choices by the amount of time you have, the real I can emerge, depending upon those choices.”
“I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.”
“I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.”
“I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.”
“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”
“I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.”
“I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.”
Source: Our Tragic Universe
“I erupt from the dark, crushing tunnel into a flash of light and noise. A new kind of air surrounds me, dry and cold, as they wipe the last smears of home off my skin. I feel a sharp pain as they snip something, and suddenly I am less. I am no one but myself, tiny and feeble and utterly alone. I am lifted and swungthrough great heights across yawning distances, and given to Her. She wraps around me, so much bigger and softer than I ever imagined from inside,and I strain my eyes open. I see Her. She is immense, cosmic. She is the world. The world smiles down on me, and when She speaks it’s the voice of God, vast and resonant with meaning, but words unknowable, ringing gibberish in my blank white mind.”
Source: Warm Bodies
“I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“I escape.
She'd learned to love long shadows. Hints she'd soon be able to crawl beneath the covers and disappear into the space between black letters on a white page. Become something else.
Someone else.
Someone not in pain.”
Source: Nevermore Bookstore
“I escaped a North Korean prison camp”
“I escaped from an interview with that laboratory-loving doctor, Ag O. Nee, just barely by the shadow of my Nosey nose!”
“I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.”
“I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.”
“I escaped reality's weakness by going into a world where I cried no tears, a universe without fears, where the possibilities are limitless~”
“I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.”
“I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.”
“I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.”
“I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.”
“I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.”
“I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!”
“I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a bit, and I just fell in love with the idea of that era of New York, that jazz era, especially jazz in Harlem.”
“I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he's always getting stuff from his brothers. And he's got a fat, lazy rat.”
“I especially liked it when, at the end, they begged for their lives. When they did that—and they all did that eventually—I would pretend to hesitate and see in their eyes the glimmer of a final, desperate hope. I let them have that for an instant. Then, I took it away. That—that extinguishing of their very last hope—I savored more than anything, even more than the extinguishing of their lives.
You see, it was at that moment they could feel the presence of the Devil and would beg God to come and deliver them from him. And it was in that moment that I made them see—that they finally realized—God had been there all along. It was then they understood: the Devil was just God in his night attire.”
Source: The Devil Aspect
“I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.”
“I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.”
“I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.”
“I especially love my Moto Guzzi.”
“I especially love the way he moves, like a young god who takes his time walking because he wants mere mortals like me to bask in his perfection.”
Source: Drawn: His Secret Toy
“I especially treasured my glimpses of Mother, Queen Cleopatra VII. She sat on a golden throne, looking as resplendent as one of the giant marble statues guarding the tombs of the Old Ones. Diamonds twinkled in a jungle of black braids on her ceremonial wig. She wore a diadem with three rearing snakes and a golden broad collar, shining with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and emeralds, over her golden, form-fitting pleated gown. In one hand, she held a golden ankh of life, while the other clasped the striped crook and flail of her divine rulership. Her stillness radiated power, like a lioness pausing before the pounce. It left me breathless with awe.”
Source: Cleopatra's Moon