I Quotes
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“I nodded, appreciating the wisdom of her words.‘Yellow is the colour of early spring,’ she said, ‘just look at your garden!’ She gestured towards the borders, which were full of primulas, crocuses and daffodils. ‘The most cheerful of colours,’ she continued, ‘almost reflective in its nature and it is of course the colour of the mind.’
‘That’s why we surround ourselves with it!’ laughed Phyllis, ‘in the hope that its properties will rub off.’‘Nonsense dear,’ said Mrs Darley dismissively, ‘Yellow light simply encourages us to think more positively. It lifts our spirits and raises our self-esteem in time for summer.’I immediately made a mental note to surround myself with the colour of the season and, like Phyllis, hoped that some of its properties would rub off on me.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”
Source: Waterfall
“I nodded sagely, pretended to be making some sort of useful observation of the white surfaces and clear tubes and gray machines that I lacked the doctorates to comprehend, and thought about dualism. Good and evil. Man and woman. All forces and powers and principalities equal and opposite. The notion that we live in a universe with that kind of comforting, obvious ledger. That is the kind of thinking that makes people believe that the moon controls menstrual cycles, that vaginas are magic, when all they really are is blood and tissue and, in the instance of one particularly ugly case that I drink to forget about, teeth. They're impressively versatile and under the right circumstances a lot of fun, but no more or less miraculous than your twenty-ninth vertebra.”
Source: Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous
“I nodded to Sam. "I'll just clean up these boxes and meet you out on the floor." Macy's didn't mess around their shoe department in New York. It spanned two floors, and it was always busy.
"Okay," she relented. "If you're not out in ten minutes, I'm coming back to find you."
"Got it. I was relieved when she finally walked out of the stock room. I wanted to forget this craziness had ever occurred.
Tom bent over to help me as I gathered up the errant shoes. "Dude," he said, "can I touch your arm? I've never touched anyone who's died before.”
Source: Struck
“I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science.”
“I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.'
'My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette.”
Source: Radiant Days
“I nodded very slowly. “You’re right. Everyone knows my weakness. It’s not really a secret. But what most don’t get is that she’s also what keeps me strong. She’s what keeps me fighting. I’ve killed for her and I’ll do it again. In a heartbeat.” - Aidan”
Source: Deadly Pack
“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic? That's Avari's master plan? That makes him sound about as dangerous as Yogi Bear." Tod shrugged. "Yeah. If Yogi were a soul-sucking, body-stealing, boyfriend-snatching, damned-soul-torturing evil demon from another world. Besides, what else could he be planning?”
“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
“I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.”
Source: It Chooses You
“I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious.”
Source: Bloodlines
“I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.”
“I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland”
“I nord fra Paucis varre efter Kjølens rand
og efter grænsen gaar vi syd til varre
Savca. Dette er nu tinglyst Tysfjord-land,
som Hamarøyen vilde til sig kare. -”
Source: Tysfjords Trompet
“I Norge liker vi så godt å tenke at alle er like og derfor må alle leve som om de er middelklasse, med blomster i vinduskarmen og duker på bordene. De som jobber i omsorgsyrkene vet jo at det ikke stemmer, de ser mennesker bade i sin egen avføring mellom duker og blomsterpotter.”
Source: Omsorg
“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.”
“I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.”
“I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.”
“I normally don't eat junk food.”
“I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.”
“I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.”
“I normally don't need any help to put pressure on myself but there was additional pressure because it was a film she always wanted to shoot and I wanted to tell this story as best as possible. When I told my wife that I'd like to direct it, I had already given it a lot of thought and honestly I felt that I was the best person for the job, plus I was cheap.”
“I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.”
“I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.”
“I normally ignore the History Channel.”
“I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...”
“I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.”
“I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.”
“I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.”
“I normally train without a shirt, but I’ll keep it on to preserve your dignity, m’lady,” Roy teased Wendy.
“Oh, don’t flatter yourself. You wouldn’t be the first half-naked man I’ve ever seen,” Wendy replied, the corner of her mouth twitching.”
Source: The Rescue
“I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.”
“I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.”
“I nostri corpi sono selvatici. Il gesto involontario e veloce di girare la testa se sentiamo un grido, la
vertigine se guardiamo in un precipizio, il cuore in gola nei momenti di pericolo, il riprendere fiato, i
momenti tranquilli di quiete quando ci rilassiamo e riflettiamo sono tutte risposte universali di questo
corpo mammifero. Si osservano in tutti i mammiferi. Il corpo non ha bisogno dell'intercessione di un
intelletto conscio per respirare, per far battere il cuore.”
Source: The Practice of the Wild
“I nostri cuori sono i nostri orologi. Siamo case che invecchiano al ritmo delle nostre pulsazioni.
- Le mie illusioni danno sul cortile”
“I not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering”
“I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.”
“I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.”
“I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.”
Source: The ides of March
“I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.”
“I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?”
“I not only have a body; I am this body.”
“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”
“I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".”
“I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.”
“I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.”
Source: Sam Walton: Made In America
“I not only listen to country music - I have a like for R&B music.”
“I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.”
“I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.”