I Quotes
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“I managed to find a small spot to squeeze my bike's handlebars in between a few other fast-looking machines. As I set my helmet and shoes in position for a quick getaway, one of my new neighbors stepped up. He introduced himself and asked me how I thought I would do in the race. Not a standard question, I thought. I told him I just wanted to finish and end the race with a smile. He was not impressed.”
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“I managed to get her to sip two spoonfuls. I think that is more than enough, don’t you, Mother? Poor Primrose is already sick, she does not have to suffer through soup. Particularly this concoction of grey wateriness Miss Brook is so proud of. It looks like old laundry water and smells like socks. Besides, Primrose keeps dozing off. What was I supposed to do? Drown her in it?”
Source: The Doom of Balar
“I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.”
“I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.”
“I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.”
“I managed to slowly move my eyes away from the monster to the boy who stood with him. Time stopped.”
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“I managed to stay grounded and when I wasn't working, I was hanging out with my friends so I was still able to be a kid and have that part of my life. I didn't let acting take over completely.”
“I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.”
“I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.”
“I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.”
“I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.”
“I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.”
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“I many times thought peace had come,
When peace was far away;
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
At centre of the sea,
And struggle slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
How many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.”
Source: Selected poems
“I march downtown from my sister's, hugging myself, tears streaming down my face, mayhem in my heart. It's freezing. My breath puffs out in little Miyazaki clouds with each step. With so many crews of people in matching costumes, I've never felt lonelier. I hadn't known it was possible.”
“I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?”
“I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.”
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“I marched along the familiar paths, hoping a fast stride would keep me warm. Part of me was enjoying the peaceful scenery while the other part pondered my newly altered circumstances. I never wallow in self-pity, for there is nothing to be gained by such indulgences, but I confess to feeling just a bit irritated.
“If only I’d had the good fortune to be a widow!” I muttered to myself crossly, kicking at a pebble in my path. Instead of a divorcée, that is to say. Quelle différence! My present circumstances would be much improved by my having lost my husband in some war, rather than by the shocking action of booting him from my life. It isn’t fair, but there we are.”
Source: Disfigured
“I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.”
“I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.”
“I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.”
“I mark each step as proof. Most stop at ideas; I build into assets.”
“I mark Henry James’ sentence: observe perpetually. Observe the oncome of age. Observe greed. Observe my own despondency.
- Virginia Woolf”
Source: The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life
“I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.”
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“I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.”
“I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning.”
Source: Aunts Omnibus
“I married a damned cereal killer”
“I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.”
“I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.”
“I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.”
“I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.”
“I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years old. Then one day I began to make a sweater, and eventually the sweater was on the front page of Elle magazine. And the day after I was the queen of knit in America.”
“I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.”
“I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.”
“I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.”
“I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.”
“I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.”
“I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.”
“I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.”
“I married an awesome cook, thats cool!”
“I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.”
“I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.”
“I married beneath me. All women do.”
“I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!”
“I married her just because she looks like you.”
“I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and asked him to come in and audition. We went in and auditioned - he needed someone to read with him. I read with him, and she said, "Well, why don't both of you come back in the fall."”
“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”
Source: Heartburn
“I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.”
“I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.”
“I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.”