I Quotes
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“I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.”
“I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.”
“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
Source: Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book
“I have cut out sugar, I make sure I get plenty of alone time, I go on long walks and I’ve stopped saying yes to everybody. I’ve cut down my working hours. All of these things make a buffer and I say I like to keep my buffer broad. Sometimes problems come up that narrow my buffer and then I have to make sure I build it up again. Keeping well is almost a full-time job but I have a wonderful life.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all.
It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from
creeping in.”
“I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.”
“I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”
“I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.”
Source: Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909
“I have danced my way through life with my eyes,
But I admire those who have done it better with their feet”
“I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.”
“I have dangerous bones in my body.”
“I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.”
Source: Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography
“I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.”
“I have dated and have had sex with men and women and have to say that the relationships I have had with certain women have been much more fulfilling, sexually and emotionally, than of those with certain men. I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is. That's what makes my wheels turn.”
“I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.”
“I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.”
“I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.”
“I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.”
“I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.”
“I have dealt with killahs before."
I study her face. She is not speaking figuratively.
Her dark eyes hold mine. "I told you where I came from."
I do some quick math. In the 90's, around the time my world was shattered by my father's death, Sierra Leone was brutalized by civil war. Mariama would have been a young adult, watching everything around her being blown to pieces. I learned it as a fact in a college classroom. Mariama lived it. How little thought I've given to the life of this woman I've come to depend on.”
Source: The Marsh Queen
“I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.”
“I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.”
“I have decided, before the embers of my life dwindle anymore, to embark on a grand tour. With rumblings of revolution and troubled times to come, the old ways are passing on. I have had enough of sitting here twiddling with a quill writing my wretched memoirs. Twelve volumes. Mostly lies but amusing, nevertheless. It is time to return to life.”
Source: Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell
“I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.”
Source: Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
“I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.”
“I have decided not to die.”
Source: The Help
“I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.”
“I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“I have decided not to run for president.”
“I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I have decided that I don’t want to die empty. I want to live so full that after all the spilling over I do in the earth, when I die, even my remains would be full enough to give life to many generations to come. I saw that in Jesus and I’m my Father’s daughter!”
“I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I'm not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes. My Yes is final.”
Source: Love Warrior
“I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.”
“I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.”
“I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I have decided that now is not the right time for me to run for the leadership - though I remain completely committed to ensuring we secure our position as a great trading nation with sensible controls on migration. I believe that Theresa May has the strength, judgment and values to deliver those things.”
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.”
“I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.”
“I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.”
Source: Gilead
“I have decided the two options for me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I have believe I have done, by dwelling on them.”
Source: Gilead
“I have decided to always respond to anything concerning me, even if I am not directly asked, or ESPECIALLY HEN I AM NOT DIRECTLY ASKED, because I cannot allow others to create my story for me.”
“I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.”
“I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.”
“I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.”
“I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.”
“I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.”
“I have decided to give my support to Theresa May. I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her and I'm sure she'll be a very fine prime minister of this country.”