I Quotes
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“I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.”
“I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.”
Source: Hannibal Lecter, my father
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
“I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?'”
“I find ways to make things affordable. If the kids want the looks, they can be able to go afford it.”
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.”
“I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.”
“I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.”
“I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.”
“I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.”
“I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.”
“I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.”
Source: Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition
“I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.”
“I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about "the character," and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.”
“I find words really hard.”
“I find writing a little like possession. I don't feel I make up the stories. My characters do and I just write them down”
Source: Legacies
“I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.”
“I find writing frustrating. Words seem inadequate for all emotions. I do not have enough mastery of language to put my feelings to paper. Perhaps the author's duty is not to express his feelings but those of the story or novel.”
“I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.”
“I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.”
“I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.”
“I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.”
“I find you get out of people what you put into them.”
“I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.”
“I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.”
“I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.”
Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935
“i find you
in every echo,
i find you in every
dream, i find you
in every feeling
in the depths
of my inner
being.”
“I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.”
“I find you irritating. (Kat) I haven’t even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin) I can imagine. I can also imagine ripping your throat out and tying my shoes with your larynx. (Kat)”
“I find you offensive for finding me offensive”
“I find you very charming underneath all the smugness.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.”
“I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.”
“I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.”
“I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.”
“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.”
“I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who I think I am?" voice in your head. I find that only leads me down dark monkey-mind paths and patterns of behavior that benefits no one.”
“I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.”
Source: Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings
“I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.”
“I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.”
“I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.”
Source: The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798)
“I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.”
“I fingered the winterkilled grass, looping it round the tip of my finger like hair, ruffling its tips with my palms. Another year has twined away, unrolled and dropped across nowhere like a flung banner painted in gibberish. "The last act is bloody, however brave be all the rest of the play; at the end they throw a little earth upon your head, and it's all over forever.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.”
“I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.”
“I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.”
“I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.”
“I finish where I began: Jesus' statement "Come and see" provides both an invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come to Him; see Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords; recognize in Him the great Messiah who will come again with healing in His wings, to set His people free. He will wrap you about in the cloak of His redeeming love, and your life will be changed forever.”