I Quotes
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“I have bad car juju." -Stephanie Plum”
“I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.”
“I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.”
“I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.”
“I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.”
“I have balls the size of grapefruits and come this Sunday, you'll be spitting out the seeds.”
“I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.”
“I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're similar, in that they have very short legs and kind of long torsos, and I do as well.”
“I have battered destructively and in vain upon the mystery of someone else's life and must cease at last.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I have beaten people into the ground and the more they cry the more of a beating I gave them. If they don’t cry, I come off, if they cry then I will beat them and beat them and beat them.”
Source: Harry's Fight: Harry Marsden - From Catholic Care Home Abuse To Gangster To Good Fellow
“I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.”
“I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.”
“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
Source: The Garden of Evening Mists
“I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.”
“I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's almost tailor-made for people who shoot the way we shoot, trying a million different options and versions of things. Because the audience doesn't laugh at a joke, we put in another joke. If they don't laugh at the next joke, we put in another joke. You just keep doing them and you can get the movie to the point where every joke is funny, if you have enough options in the can.”
“I have become a housewife and there is no better job.”
“I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.”
“I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.”
“I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.”
“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India
“I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
“I have become a trailblazer for my destiny; the entrepreneur of my fate.”
Source: Unliving the Dream
“I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.”
“I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.”
“I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.”
Source: Ohitika Woman
“I have become an isolationist. I isolate in my room, the names of men on my tongue I can no longer pronounce, my memory of them unraveled by time. I look out my bedroom window onto the velveted backyard that expands into forever, my pigeons silent and content behind hexwire, the moon hooked in the limbs of my favorite peach tree, its purple bark the color of my lover’s skin.”
“I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.”
“I have become an orchid
washed in on the salt white beach.
Memory,
what can I make of it now
that might please you-
this life, already wasted
and still strewn with miracles?”
“I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.”
Source: Damaged: A Violated Trust
“I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.”
Source: Just a Minute: In the Heart of a Child, One Moment ... Can Last Forever.
“I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.”
Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most
“I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.”
“I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.”
“I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.”
“I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.”
“I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.”
“I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.”
“I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.”
Source: Bodies of Work: Essays
“I have become intoxicated again.
You are such a potent wine, my friend.
To escape your withdrawal effects,
tomorrow I will drink in excess.
Alas, why make me love?
I was aware, conscious, and sensible before.
I am ill by cause of this illusion.
The devil plays tricks on me more and more.
I was a harp you immaculately plucked at will.
Your score, the nightingale song within
notes composed to imprison and bear me wings.
Oh, if only they could hear how it sings!
I am now beyond parched.
My strings left untouched.
You are no longer an oasis, my friend,
but a mirage soon coming to an end.”
“I have become involved with thinking and acting without the help of an ideology; I have nothing that helps me, no idea that I serve and am known for . . . no rules that regulate the how, no belief that gives me direction, no picture of the future, no instruction that produces an overly ordered mind. I acknowledge only what is and, accordingly, regard every description and configuration of that which we don’t know as madness. Ideologues seduce and exploit uncertainty, legitimize war.”
“I have become my own father.”
Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond
“I have become my own island state. A ravaged, war-torn land where nothing grows and the horizons are bleak.
~Anastasia”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.”
“I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.”
Source: A New Model of the Universe
“I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.”
“I have become so uncomfortable with American corruption that I no longer tell people that I am a USA citizen.”
“I have become that mother I used to dread.”
“I have become the Child of Fate, Hero of Ages, Healer of Worlds, Deathless Seeker, and Harbinger of the Dawn.”
Source: The Chronicles of Emberstone Farm