I Quotes
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“I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.”
“I even take a little pleasure in tormenting Harry. I let him dream all month, and then again I exile him because he is disintegrated, chaotic, unbalanced, because he is sick, the nakedness of his appetite and greed revolt me. His audacity and demands.”
Source: Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin
“I even tell them about the maybe-almost kiss, which gets a certified gasp out of Kerry. By the time I’m done, they both look shook, and Kerry has slid off the couch, squeezing in between Taylor and me on the floor. 'Let me see if I have this right,' Kerry says, pressing her hands together like she’s in prayer. 'You and Amira agree to be friends, things are going well, so well you think there’s a possibility she may even kiss you? Then she asks why you hate her, and your response is that you simply didn’t think it was beneficial to keep her around. Do I have that right?' 'That’s not exactly what I said,' I grumble. 'Tomatoes, to-mah-toes,' she says. 'That’s the general gist, then?' I sigh. 'Yes.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“I even think that the best definition of a man is an ungrateful creature on two legs.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.”
“I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with very particular visions, like Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson and Alexander Payne and Peter Sollett and Harmony Korine and Vincent Gallo. At least they're making films that they choose to make, and they're on their own. That's positive to me. This is not a dead period for American cinema at all.”
“I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.”
“I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I even tried to usher her into this century by explaining that wearing rainbows didn’t automatically mean a person was gay. The Lucky Charms leprechaun was not necessarily a homosexual. The Care Bear with the rainbow on his tummy did not have a life partner. He didn’t even have genitals. (6)”
Source: The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir
“I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.”
“I even watched Mulholland Drive in French... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either.”
“I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.”
“I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.”
“I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.”
“I eventually came to realise that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure.”
Source: Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Fool Moon #1
“I eventually came to suspect that any God who is nervous, defensive, or angry in the face of questions is a false god. I began to realize that I often ascribed to God the traits of people who are ill at ease, anxious, and occasionally hateful and who even presume from time to time to speak on God's behalf.”
“I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free.”
Source: Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
“I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.”
“I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.”
“I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.”
Source: Travels
“I eventually realized that good things wouldnt happen to me if I didnt make the right choices.”
“I eventually realized that to make a difference I had to step outside, into creation, and refocus on the roots of my passion. If an ounce of soil, a sparrow, or an acre of forest is to remain then we must all push things forward. To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to inspire. Heart and mind cannot be exclusive of one another in the fight to save anything. To help others understand nature is to make it breathe like some giant: a revolving, evolving, celestial being with ecosystems acting as organs and the living things within those places -- humans included -- as cells vital to its survival.”
Source: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
“I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions.”
“I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.”
“I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.”
“I ever said back when we had our choice words I still told everybody that I respected him. I wouldn't want to have to do [Joe Rogan] job and I don't know anybody else that could do his job.”
“I evo, naišla je ova gorčina, kojom mi se preseče srce nadvoje, da me podseti na ono što sam, zagledan u nebo, zaboravio: da je hlebac koji jedemo ustvari ukraden; da smo za život koji nam je dat dužni zloj sudbini - grehu, taksiratu; da sesa ovoga sveta na onaj bolji ne može preći dok se kao zrela voćka ne otkine, ne poleti u bolnom i strmoglavom padu, i ne tresne o tvrdu zemlju. Valjda se i raju nosi modrica toga pada.”
Source: Priča o vezirovom slonu i druge pripovijetke
“I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.”
“I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.”
“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?”
“I examine it [pain] every which way. Why do I really feel this way? What's going on here? I have to really explore it all the way out, drill it down to its lowest common denominator and go, Oh! That's what that is. I'm feeling insecure. Or, Oh! God has something better for me.”
“I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.”
Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.”
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.”
“I examined my palm; the skin was unbroken and smooth, showing no sign of the burn. It glistened with saliva. I really wanted to wipe it clean against my jeans, but that seemed rude. Of course, he’d just licked me, so maybe his idea of rude was different than mine.”
Source: Isla's Inheritance
“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.
From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.
We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
“I examined the portraits nearest to me but couldn't get past the sensation that here was the same man over and over, crouched in old boxes, readying himself to spit on my plate.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.”
“I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!”
“I excelled in English while I was at school.”
“I exchange a long glance with June. She's okay, she's unharmed. And yet, I'm afraid that she'll disappear if I'm careless enough to look away.”
Source: Champion
“I exchange a look with Amira. Since when do we call Brigit, Bridge? Amira rolls her eyes. Since always, you just don’t pay attention. Oh, cool, I guess we can speak with our eyes now.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.”
Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly
“I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.”
“I exclusively use they/them and he/him pronouns now, and that is what I expect people to use when referring to me in the past. I know this sounds confusing, but I think it's okay to have a different set of rules for myself in relation to my gender and past than I do for others.”
Source: Finding Nevo
“I excuse myself and go to the ladies’ room. Washing my hands, I give myself a little you
can do this type pep talk. When I walk out, I see him leaned up against the wall opposite the door.
"Long line for the men's room?" I try to joke, moving past him.
His hand circles my wrist, stopping me. I inhale, frozen in place. My back is to him. I don't
try to pull away. I can't move. I just look down at his hand, staring at his damn freckle.
"Sarah."
"What are you playing at, Will?'
"Playing?" He tugs my arm back so I'm facing him. "I promise you this is no game."
"Alright, what do you want from me? Is that better?" I practically spit.
"Everything." He's moved his hands up to hold my biceps. "I want everything from you."
Everything. That one word still breaks my heart when I think back to that night.
My head snaps back as though he's struck me. Don’t cry, just don’t cry. "I gave you
everything once. Now I have nothing left for you."
I pull myself from his grasp and hurry back to the table.”
Source: Him
“I excused myself to the woman I was with and made my way over to these men. I stopped to ask my friend Buller to watch my back. The thing is, people like this can’t be talked to, and so I wasn’t going to mess around with this crazed windmill and his sidekick, Don Quixote.
I hit the mouthy crazed windmill with a thumping right, a left, right, smack on the chin; he fell apart and was out for the count before he hit the deck.
I turned to Don Quixote and off he shot like the Disney cartoon character of Speedy Gonzales.”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.”
“I exercise a lot. I enjoy exercising. I switch back and forth with cardio and strength training every other day, and I try to do something active every single day. Other than that, I try to make sure I have enough quiet time to myself to recharge every week as well.”