I Quotes
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“I like things that look like mistakes.”
“I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.”
“I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.”
“I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.”
“I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.”
“I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.”
“I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.”
“I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition”
“I like things to be orderly.”
Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”
“I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I like the exercise of reading through a paragraph, and it's just torture. I try not to have my eyes dart to the right. That's the stuff that I love.”
“I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.”
“I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.”
“I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.”
“I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.”
“I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.”
“I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.”
“I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.”
“I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”
“I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.”
“I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.”
“I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.”
“I like thinking,” she added, “that the forest sounds the same as it did millions of years ago, and it will sound the same millions of years from now. I find the endlessness comforting. It puts my small problems into perspective. Like looking at the stars at night and realizing that everything I worried about all day is utterly insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe.”
Source: Silent Threat
“I like thinking that I'd be worth the trouble of something like that. I like thinking that it doesn't need to be fancy to be special. Maybe they'd remember I like fountain soda best or daisies instead of roses. Little things that'd let me know they've been paying attention. I like that. Thinking I'm worth paying attention to. Something ordinary made extraordinary by the person you're sharing it with. That's the sort of date I'd want.”
Source: First-Time Caller
“I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I like this dirty Chase, this crude and irreverent man. I want to go where he's taking me. I need to be dragged down to where he is so we can build ourselves back up, together, stronger.”
Source: I Stand Before You
“I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot.”
“I like this, I dislike that. He is good, she is evil.' This black and white approach towards life gives us very low quality experiences. To make up for the quality, we run after quantity. We seek more and more dramas everywhere be it home, office, road, TV, news media.”
“I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.”
“I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.”
“I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.”
“I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think.”
“I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.”
“I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.”
“I like this man. He is honorable, he loves his daughter and his family, and, besides, he probably voted for Goodman. My kind of guy . . .”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“I like this one." Hermes walks slowly around me. He winks at Apollo. "She's definitely your type."
"Apollo is Apollo's type," I mutter.
"And I'm sure he's even tried to seduce his own reflection." Hermes leans forward conspiratorially. "Between you and me, he'd have more luck with his reflection than even a fish.”
“I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!”
“I like this part of the story best,’ she says. ‘Me too,’ says Tom. ‘Oh, me too.’ And oh God, thinks Claudia, may it have a happy ending. Please may it have a happy ending.”
Source: Moon Tiger
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
“I like this skirt. Makes a guy wonder just how to get a girl out of it.”
Source: Playing by Her Rules
“I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness”
“I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.”
“I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.”
“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.”
“I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.”
“I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.”
“I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.”
“I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!”