I Quotes
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“I find nothing so singular in life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“I find
nothing toxic
in the thorn
except the
occasional prickle
of the rose.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“I find nothing toxic in the thorn, only the occasional prickle of the rose.”
“I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up”
“I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
“I find NY very inspiring, there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in NY like nowhere else.”
“I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.”
“I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.”
“I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.”
“I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all of us. When an artist becomes really famous, you'll start listening to songs and saying "Wait...I've heard that before" and it'll be one of theirs. We all fall into that rut. If you don't have something to force you out of it, then it's kind of a dangerous business.”
“I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.”
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”
“I find only sadness and melancholy when I wade through the past, even when revisiting good memories. The past is gone; I can neither grasp it nor reshape it. Therefore, I must force my eyes to look toward the future where my mortal powers thrive.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I find OOP technically unsound.”
“I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.”
“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“I find out that I'm dead while eating spoonfuls of shaved ice from a paper cone. My official death notice. Lemon flavored.”
Source: When the Sea Is Rising Red
“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”
“I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.”
“I find pain, rather beautiful.
It has a chaotic way of shaking up
Everything we once ignored,
To empower us to move past
Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.”
“I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.”
“I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.”
“I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.”
“I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air.”
“I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.”
“I find people confusing.
This is for two main reasons.
The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you said was very stupid.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
“I find people confusing.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play
“I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.”
“I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.”
“I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.”
“I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.”
“I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.”
“I find period pieces really difficult to get my head around. How can we know what it must have been like to be in Nazi Germany in 1944? The reality weighs on me because I feel like you want to try and honor what happened, but how can you truly know? I have never lived in a war or lost anyone.”
“I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.”
“I find pieces of her
In songs, book quotes,
Even in the dismal corners
Of macabre streets
Hosting nobody except
Failed men and women”
Source: Diary in Poems
“I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.”
“I find places like this so packed with memories. Visiting them can be like opening a memory jar. You take off the lid and the smells and sounds of a place hit you, unlocking things folded away deep in your brain.”
Source: This Time Next Year
“I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.”
“I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.”
“I find pleasure in things that are simple.”
“I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.”
“I find police internal affairs feigning problematic police officers are just doing their jobs to be a very dangerous activity they engage in!”
“I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.”
“I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.”
“I find prostitutes vastly important.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.”