I Quotes
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“I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.”
“I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else's drawing sounds like going back to heaven.”
“I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.”
Source: The Final Testament
“I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
“I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.”
“I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.”
“I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.”
“I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.”
“I felt like I kind of got to know [Elvis Presley], and got a little peek inside what was going on there. That was pretty amazing.”
“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”
Source: Chronicles
“I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't want to blame the little girl inside of me for not speaking up at the age of six.”
Source: Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
“I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.”
“I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.”
“I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.”
“I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].”
“I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.”
“I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.”
“I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.”
“I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through”
Source: A Heart That Works
“I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.”
“I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.”
“I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.”
“I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.”
“I felt like I was failing at widowhood. I missed my husband, but no one knew that when they looked at me. They just saw a mom with blonde highlights going to yoga, picking up her daughter from school, buying groceries at Trader Joe’s. And now I was at a party with a date when I should have been home, grieving, all alone.
I didn’t look like a widow. I wasn’t acting like a widow. But I felt like a widow.
I guess I was just widowish.”
Source: Widowish: A Memoir
“I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.”
“I felt like I was going to die, and I went into a deep depression. It took me years to get out of that fog. You need micro-changes you had to make to survive this relationship. Narcissistic partners are masterful at leaving someone feeling like they are doing something wrong. Fear of being alone often drives a person back into a relationship quickly. If you are going to give your partner these second chances, just make sure your expectations are in line with reality. It really comes down to your willingness to shift your focus out of the past and into the present and the future.”
Source: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
“I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.”
“I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.”
“I felt like I was in a dream; everything was so surreal. I felt like I had set foot in a fairytale. Maybe I had. If that was true, I certainly hoped I never woke up. -Kylie”
Source: Forbidden
“I felt like I was in charge.”
“I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.”
Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“I felt like I was in the middle of a slow-motion shipwreck. The ship was sinking, and no one could change that. I could barely tread water in the swirling, debris-ridden sea of emotions--fighting to keep my nose above the waves, struggling for each breath.”
Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is
“I felt like I was in the TV show and I was the main character, but I'm the only one who doesn't know about it. Everyone's playing their role, but not me. I'm just simply living my life.”
Source: Crazy game called Life
“I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.”
“I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.”
“I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.”
“I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.”
“I felt like I was riding into infinity, and soon I forgot I existed as the sky surrounded us in a blanket of stars, constellations the texture of slushies, swirling blue and violet and gold. I was swallowed b the universe, riding on a white horse in a midnight dream...”
Source: Entwined
“I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.”
Source: Half Brother
“I felt like I was seeing through him. Through his skin, his muscles, his bones. All the way down into his soul. I wondered if just a lifetime with him would be enough. Not as a friend, or neighbor, or even a lover, but as a person. Would I get to know him beyond this life? Beyond the bodies that we're in right now? Not knowing the answer to that question terrified me.
Because I wanted to know him in every lifetime.”
Source: The Soulmate Theory
“I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.”
“I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I can't let you go.”
Source: The Lure of the Moon
“I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.”
“I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life: I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.”
“i felt like i was wanting you more than ever..
I want to fall asleep with the pure sound of your heart beat,
wrapped around your warm arms, feeling your skin against mine
and wake up with the sound of your sweet voice and a beautiful smile
on a saturday morning.
I want to kiss you from head to toe and drown in your carefree laugh
I want the entirety of you and love you endlessly.....
when i wake up this morning and pondered of my wants
it break my heart to realise that my simple wants
are nowhere near achievable....”
“I felt like I was watching the transfomation of two people: Victor to wolf, and Cole to someone else. I was the only one here, staying the same.”
“I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.”
Source: It Chooses You
“I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level.”
“I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.”