I Quotes
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“I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.”
Source: Crime stories and other writings
“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.”
“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.”
“I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.”
“I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.”
“I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.”
“I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.”
“I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.”
“I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.”
“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.”
“I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.”
“I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.”
Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
“I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.”
“I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.”
“I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“I found it concerning that the medical profession could not recognize drug intolerance in a person that had a five year history of using company supplied drugs to do their job.”
“I found it concerning that the USA medical profession could not recognize the side effects of the medications that they had placed me on.”
“I found it concerning the sleep clinic had prescribed a setting that made me sick and this matched my findings with the CPAP machine that these CPAP and BiPAP prescriptions are highly inaccurate! Approximately 50% of people that are prescribed these treatments abandon them and a poor prescription setting is likely a factor in this. It takes weeks of experimentation to find the correct setting of these machines and sleep clinics trying to do it in one night is just providing many sickened patients with a really bad healthcare experience.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.”
“I found it depressing that no one in Mongolia should know anything of Chernobyl, especially when they themselves had the same sort of nuclear power plants. It was bad enough that they have been colonized and occupied by the Soviets, but it was much worse that this paternalism was taken so literally that they were treated like children and not told anything.”
Source: Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
“I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.”
“I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.”
“I found it especially terrible that when it came to racial politics, many young progressives, across racial lines, were far more willing to train their hatred on Hillary Clinton, a white woman, than on Bernie Sanders, a white man. White women have absolutely been accomplices to the American project of white supremacy, but their husbands, brothers, fathers and sons have always been the masterminds. Let us never forget that.”
Source: Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
“I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.”
“I found it fascinating that there could be so many realities. There was the truth, which was the world we lived. There was also the worlds we would create for ourselves in our minds. In truth, there are countless universes and realities hiding within all of mankind.”
Source: Lady Injury
“I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I found it hard to have faith in anything without knowledge of it.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.”
“I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?”
Source: Gather Together in My Name
“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place.”
Source: Sympathy
“I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up”
Source: The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author
“I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.”
Source: Long Shot
“I found it impossible to tear myself away from my station and plunge into Hungary. I feel the same disability now; a momentary reluctance to lay hands on this particular fragment of the future; not out of fear, but because, within arm's reach and still intact, this future seemed, and still seems, so full of promised marvels.”
Source: A Time of Gifts
“I found it impossible with his mouth so close to me, his lips being so fantastic and my eyes dropped to them again.
They were fine.
I licked my lips.
“Ava.”
My eyes drifted back to his and I was in a Luke Lip Fog. “Yeah?”
“You lick your lips while looking at my mouth one more time, you’ll find that pretty pink tongue of yours in my mouth.”
Source: Rock Chick Revenge
“I found it increasingly difficult to shake the suspicion that work was all about pretending to care about pointless stuff, and that success hinged on your ability to trick even yourself.”
Source: The Trio
“I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.”
“I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.”
“I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.”
“I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.”
“I found it interesting when, after the program, both Mrs. Rath and Mrs. Walker mentioned how nice it was to see Ira attending school and community events again.”
Source: A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
“I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.”
“I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.”
“I found it, miss," Meggie exclaimed breathlessly, extending the coin in her hand. It was possible that she had never held a sovereign before, since the average housemaid earned approximately eight shillings a month. "Where shall I put it?"
"You may divide it between the two of you," Annabelle said.
The housemaids stared at her, dumbfounded. "Oh, thank you, miss!" they both exclaimed, eyes wide and mouths open in amazement.”
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
“I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.”
“I found it much harder to accept the harsh reality of the German experience in the Third Reich. We, a civilized, humane people, had allowed ourselves to become indifferent to brutality committed by our own government on our own citizens.”
Source: A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika
“I found it much more healing, to be honest, to take care of my father's plants.'
...He knew he had cared for something--truly and deeply--and he saw how those things came alive again. He had been so convinced that the only solution was to run away...The solution was always the opposite of what we expected it t be. The solution was to stay here, to plant a rosebush in the middle of Main Street. To wait, to have patience, to watch new life grow up all around him. And now, it's been years. Now, our town depends on Billy. Our town comes to him for help. They ask him to line the walls of the church for their weddings. They ask him to cover the graves of their dead. They have forgiven him.”
Source: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
“I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey for people trying to reach the US, and that we hear almost nothing about it here.”
“I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.”