I Quotes
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“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.”
“I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things?”
“I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?”
“I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.”
“I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.”
“I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.”
“I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.”
“I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.”
“I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.”
Source: Autobiography
“I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.”
“I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.”
“I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.”
“I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.”
“I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.”
“I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.”
“I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.”
“I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.”
“I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.”
“I found that high altitude astronomy was riddled with nepotism.”
“I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!”
“I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.”
“I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.”
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work with them...I had to be able to take books from their places, run my finger over their backs, see how they opened, flick their corners straight. I wanted a perspective of bookshelves always in my eye. And books, books, books. This was not a rational way of determining on a career and was much tainted by mushiness. But it was the way in which my decision hardened, before I was fifteen years old, to become a librarian.”
“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”
“I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.”
Source: In Search of Identity: An Autobiography
“I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.”
“I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.”
“I found that I really enjoy helping people. I enjoy getting to know people and helping them in whatever endeavor they're trying to commit to.”
“I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.”
“I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.”
“I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.”
“I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.”
“I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.”
“I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.”
“I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.”
“I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.”
“I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.”
“I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.”
“I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.”
“I found that life has to be edited to continue.”
Source: Tracey Emin: works 1963-2006
“I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.”
Source: 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
“I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.”
“I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.”
“I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.”
“I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.”
“I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.”