I Quotes
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“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
“I must have a screw loose," she muttered under her breath. Satisfied the counter was clean, she squatted down and put the cleaning supplies away in the cabinet beneath the register. "Yup. There's definitely something wrong with me."
"Are you looking for confirmation on that?" Jordan's heart hitched in her chest as Gavin's familiar baritone filled the shop. "Or am I supposed to argue with you?”
Source: Brave the Heat
“I must have an excellent connection at a nearby hothouse."
"You do. My younger sister- Philippa- grows the loveliest flowers, year-round, at Needham Manor."
He leaned forward, mocking in his whisper. "The first rule of falsehoods is that we only tell them about ourselves, darling."
She watched the spindly birch trees at the road's edge fading into the white snow beyond. "It's not a falsehood. Pippa is a horticulturist.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“I must have an eye toward the future otherwise I will likely be eyeing defeat in the present.”
“I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.”
“I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.”
“I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.”
“I must have been a koala in my past life.”
“I must have been a really pretentious little girl.”
“I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.”
“I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.”
“I must have been about four years old when Russia took hold of me with giant hands. That grip has never lessened. For me, the love of my heart, the fulfilment of the senses and the kingdom of the mind all met here. This book is the story of my obsession. In her essays, The Sentimental Traveller, Vernon Lee wrote of her emotion for Italy thus: ‘There are moments in all our lives, most often, alas! during childhood, when we possess the mystic gift of consecration, of steeping things in our soul’s essence, and making them thereby different from all others, for ever sovereign and sacred to us.’ So Italy became to her – so Russia to me.”
Source: Journey into the Mind's Eye
“I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.”
“I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. But they were out of tomato paste, and by the time they got more in, my coupon had expired. And now I have venereal disease.”
“I must have been Cinderella. It was nice...I was so happy...I guess it's already midnight.”
“I must have been crazy for taking that fight, I should have told Anth to get on his bike, but what made it worse was I knew if I were in shape I’d have beaten him inside of two rounds. Some people reckon fighters must have a little madness in them, I reckon they might be right.”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“I must have been grown up. So I didn't notice.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.”
“I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.”
“I must have been one of the original latchkey kids…. My father worked in New York City and my mother worked the counter at a local bakery. With both of my parents working, I would let myself into the house after school. We all used a big old-fashioned key, hidden in plain sight, under the doormat. When I entered, the only one to greet me was our dog “Putzy,” a mixed breed who would jump with glee when I came in. The first thing I would do was to feed him, from his own special container left in the refrigerator. I would also open the back door and let him run around in our enclosed backyard. Billy came home about an hour after I did and since he was younger, I was responsible for him as well. There was always dried-out, day-old cake in the refrigerator that my mother had brought home from her job. Again, being the oldest, it was up to me to cut the cake into big slices, and pour two jelly jar glasses of milk for us. Afterward, my brother would go to his room to do his homework and I cleaned up, washing whatever dishes we had used.”
“I must have been seriously frustrated by my lack of sword-fighting skills to make all this up. My dream head hurts just thinking about it.”
Source: World After
“I must have been sound asleep if i missed all that shouting-Simon What shouting?-Derek you mean that Chole just told you she followed a ghost onto a roof, and you didnt blast her all the way to Canada?-Simon He's a little off this morning-Chole More than a little i'll say.-Simon”
“I must have been through about a million girls, I'd love 'em and leave 'em alone. I didn't care how much they'd cry.”
“I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.”
“I must have cried myself out. The tears stopped falling and I breathed in through my nose. I stood up and looked down at my baby sister lying there. I kissed my fingertips and touched her forehead.
"Goodbye, brat," I whispered.
"Stop calling me brat."
Caelyn's eyes opened. Her irises were blood red. She gave me an impish smile and bared her fangs.
Little sisters suck...”
Source: My Soul to Keep
“I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.”
“I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.”
“I must have done about 25,000 promos.”
“I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written”
“I must have done it right,’ Holden said. ‘Everyone’s pissed.”
Source: Cibola Burn
“I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.”
“I must have entered a time warp or I've fallen into the Twilight Zone. Which is it?"
"Neither. You're at the harbor in San Felipe, and you're looking at your home for the next two weeks."
"Good lord, an honest-to-God steamboat with a walking beam engine and side paddlewheels."
"I must admit it does have an air of Mark Twain about it."
"What do you want to bet it ferried Grant's troops across the Mississippi to Vicksburg?”
Source: Inca Gold
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
“I must have forgotten how young you would be, Princess. Has there ever been a sovereign of such tender age?"
Jasmine paused. He might have been simply making idle conversation, or maybe this was his way of paying her a compliment, but she had a feeling it was something else. He was sizing her up, and he didn't see a leader.
"Perhaps you also forgot the boy king of Egypt," she said, keeping her tone sweet as honey. "I am eighteen--- ten years older than Tutankhamun was."
"Ah, yes. Of course.”
Source: Realm of Wonders
“I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
“I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.”
“I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.”
“I must have had a dozen rides that evening. They blear into a nightmare, the one scarcely distinguishable from the other. It quickly became obvious why they picked me up. All but two picked me up the way they would pick up a pornographic photograph or book - except that this was verbal pornography. With a Negro, they assumed they need give no semblance of self-respect or respectability. The visual element entered into it. In a car at night visibility is reduced. A man will reveal himself in the dark, which gives the illusion of anonymity, more than he will in the bright light. Some were shamelessly open, some shamelessly subtle. All showed morbid curiosity about the sexual life of the Negro, and all had, at base, the same stereotyped image of the Negro as an inexhaustible sex-machine with oversized genitals and a vast store of experiences, immensely varied. They appeared to think that the Negro has done all of those “special” things they themselves have never dared to do. They carried the conversations into depths of depravity.”
Source: Black Like Me
“I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered in their flames and came out cold and hard as steel, but I'd lost forever that fire of noble endeavour, that finest flower of life. How many time since then have I been an axe in the hands of fate? Like an engine of execution, I've descended on the heads of the condemned, often without malice, but always without pity. My love has brought no one happiness, for I've never sacrificed a thing for those I've loved. I've loved for myself, for my own pleasure, I've only tried to satisfy a strange inner need. I've fed on their feelings, love, joys and sufferings, and always wanted more. I'm like a starving man who falls asleep exhausted and sees rich food and sparkling wines before him. He rapturously falls on these phantom gifts of the imagination and feels better, but the moment he wakes up his dream disappears and he's left more hungry and desperate than before.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“I must have had that Bugsy Malone type of face that attracts every fucker to have a go at me.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts”
“I must have ice in my veins to do what I just did. I expect the ice to melt...But it doesn't. It just gets colder and colder...And I welcome it.”
Source: The Rise of Scourge
“I must have in stock 3000 songs you've never heard.”
“I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.”
“I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.”
“I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.”
“I must have looked blank. "No matter how perfect the thing," he continued patiently, "the moment it's created it begins to be destroyed.”