I Quotes
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“I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them.... It's work enough to read them sometimes.... As to the writing, it has its own charms.”
Source: David Copperfield
“I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.”
“I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.”
“I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.”
“I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha”
“I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.”
“I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“I never tire of reading Tom Paine.”
“I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.”
“I never told a joke in my life.”
“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”
“I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.”
“I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for…”
Source: Moon Tiger
“I never told mine anything, because I always thought that silence was better than an open disappointment, than telling him a story he would never be able to understand.”
Source: The Appointment
“I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.”
“I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I never told my love vocally still.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.”
“I never told you about the trip to Portugal 3 years ago when I read Fernando Pessoa at 1 a.m. outside a small family-run restaurant by the harbour. If I close my eyes I can still smell the salt water and the fish, some sort of cleaning powder scent from the kitchen, can still feel the heat, a soft wind and me sitting with wide open eyes on my own at 1 a.m. writing what I thought was profound and excellent. I felt like a writer then. I was not a girlfriend or a daughter or a songwriter who never got signed—I was a writer in the truest sense and I lived in my own flames.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“I never told you, did I, that Amasai and Carrie got married last May? They are still working here, but so far as I can see it has spoiled them both. She used just to laugh when he tramped in mud or dropped ashes on the floor, but now—you should hear her scold! And she doesn’t curl her hair any longer. Amasai, who used to be so obliging about beating rugs and carrying wood, grumbles if you suggest such a thing. Also his neckties are quite dingy — black and brown, where they used to be scarlet and purple. I’ve determined never to marry. It’s a deteriorating process, evidently.”
“I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.”
“I never told you
I would take your pain if I could
I would drink it down And take my comfort
In making you ache a little less
For a little while
Did I?
I’ll never know because
I never told you that
I loved you”
Source: How To Save A Life
“I never told you that, Dad, but I was drunk out of my mind one night, I had just vomited in front of the statue of the Pasquino and couldn't have been more dazed in my life yet here as I leaned against this very wall, I knew, drunk as I was, that this, with Oliver holding me, was my life, that everything that had come beforehand with others was not even a rough sketch or the shadow of a draft of what was happening to me. And now, ten years later, when I look at this wall under this old streetlamp, I am back with him and I swear to you, nothing has changed. In thirty, forty, fifty years I will feel no differently. I have met many women and more men in my life, but what is watermarked on this very wall overshadows everyone I've known. When I come to be here, I can be alone or with people, with you for instance, but I am always with him. If I stood for an hour staring at this wall, I'd be with him for an hour. If I spoke to this wall, it would speak back."
"What would it say?" asked Miranda, totally taken in by the thought of Elio and the wall.
"What would it say? Simple: 'Look for me, find me.'"
"And what do you say?"
"I say the same thing. 'Look for me, find me.' And we were both happy. Now you know.”
Source: Find Me
“I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all.”
Source: Divine Rivals
“I never told you the details of how Cea and I started dating...I was worried and embarrassed back then about my decided lack of interest, in, well, everybody. I went out on date, well that part doesn’t really matter Cecilia was auditing a company representing at the time and there was a court case involved so we spent a lot of time together and became friends. Everything else, dating and being attracted to her, that followed after.”
“What are you saying here?“ Kai asks.
“I’m saying,“ I take a step closer, “ that I don’t get attracted to people that easily. In fact, it almost never happens. So I don’t think we can draw any fundamental conclusions about my sexuality. And maybe we don’t have to. I’ve never felt the need to label myself before, so why can’t I say I am more attracted to you and anyone else?”
Source: The Happy List
“I never told you this but I always thought the club should have recognised you far more when you retired. For the career that you had, one of Liverpool's greatest players, you should have had a much bigger and better send-off in your final match. That's just what I felt.”
“I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.”
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.”
“I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.”
“I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.”
“I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.”
“I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.”
“I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!”
“I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.”
“I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.”
“I never took any vocal training”
“I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.”
“I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.”
“I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.”
“I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.”
“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”
“I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.”
“I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.”
Source: Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry
“I never took myself too seriously.”
“I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.”
“I never took reds or Quaaludes to balance out the coke. So when it got to be four in the morning and the gram was three quarters gone, I'd start wishing it was nine o'clock and hoping the guy got up early. But, of course, he didn't sleep either, so there was no sweat. During all those years, I was always looking forward to the next snort or the next guy I could score from.”
“I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.”