I Quotes
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“I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.”
“I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts.”
“I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.”
“I have demons you can't even imagine.”
“I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.”
Source: My Recollections (1848-1912).
“I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson.”
“I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.”
“I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'”
“I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.”
Source: Collected Works
“I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.”
“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
“I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.”
“I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.”
“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.”
“I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“I have destroyed almost the whole race of frogs, which does not happen in that savage Batrachomyomachia of Homerr. For in the anatomy of frogs, which, by favour of my very excellent colleague D. Carolo Fracassato, I had set on foot in order to become more certain about the membranous substance of the lungs, it happened to me to see such things that not undeservedly I can better make use of that [saying] of Homer for the present matter—
'I see with my eyes a work trusty and great.'
For in this (frog anatomy) owing to the simplicity of the structure, and the almost complete transparency of the vessels which admits the eye into the interior, things are more clearly shown so that they will bring the light to other more obscure matters.”
“I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.”
“I have detached with love from my mom and dad who are in their 80's now. I do not participate in discussions of their financial situation. I let them work out their own issues and have discovered that I can have a loving relationship with them that doesn't involve gambling activity and behavior.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?' 'Eddies in the space-time continuum.' 'Ah...is he. Is he.' 'What?' 'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?”
“I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures”
“I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.”
“I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.”
Source: Catherine, Called Birdy
“I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.”
“I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.”
“I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.”
“I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.”
“I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".”
“I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.”
“I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.”
Source: Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history
“I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.”
“I have devoted myself to solitude.
Strangely enough I never get lonely but instead I found myself!
I’m in love with the woman I’m becoming.
I still have a far way to go but I’m getting there.
Growing is key!”
“I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.”
“I have died a million times,
Only to have taken birth again, Just to solve the mystery that she is. She is my secret, That nobody will ever know or feel…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.”
“I have died at the ripe age of twenty.
Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.
I have died at the mature age of ninety.
Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.
I have died suddenly—out of the blue.
Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.
I have died from a long illness.
Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.
I did not want to leave this Earth.
But smile, for I am still here among you.
Why are you crying?
Can you not see I am smiling?”
“I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“I have died everyday, waiting for you.”
“I have died in enough TV and films.”
“I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.”
“I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.”
Source: The glassblower's breath
“I have died too many deaths that were not mine.”
Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems
“I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!”
“I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.”
“I have different interests, and what happens with making a film is that you're going to live with it for a long time, so it better be something that has some staying power. I'm usually inspired by - it could be anything. In one instance, one of the things I was inspired by was something that was happening in my family - the drama that happens in a family, or an unsolvable crime, like Senorita Extraviada.”
“I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.”
“I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.”
“I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."”
“I have difficulty imagining what trouble the High King got into in his own rooms, but it doesn't take me long to discover. When we arrive, I spot Cardan resting among the wreckage of his furniture. Curtains ripped from their rods, the frames of paintings cracked, their canvases kicked through, furniture broken. A small fire smoulders in a corner, and everything stinks of smoke and spilled wine.
Nor is he alone. On a nearby couch are Locke and two beautiful faeries- a boy and a girl- one with ram's horns, the other with long ears that come to tufted points, like those of an owl. All of them are in an advanced state of undress and inebriation. They watch the room burn with a kind of grim fascination.
...
'Carda-' I remember myself and sink in to a bow. 'Your Infernal Majesty.'
He turns and, for a moment, seems to look through me, as though he has no idea who I am. His mouth is painted gold, and his pupils are large with intoxication. Then his lip lifts in a familiar sneer. 'You.'
'Yes,' I say. 'Me.”
Source: The Wicked King