I Quotes
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“I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.”
“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.”
“I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.”
“I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.”
“I often can't remember where I'm at. I'm like that all the time. Not so much forgetful, but more futureful. For me, today is always tomorrow. To all the people who live in the moment I say: Stop living in the past.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“I often can’t tell with mortal emotions. You all feel things like wildfire—immediate, fierce, and all-consuming.”
Source: A Cruel and Fated Light
“I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.”
“I often cannot believe the things I do.”
Source: What is the What
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
“I often carry with me, a bottle.
And at tense moments,
when the Moon sweats
and the Sun gets bitten
by the frost, I sprinkle
a few drops over myself
from that bottle, a bottle of
“YOU.”
“I often challenge the people, who can make my life hell, and I do it to break the chain of command and fear, I get their attention so badly, and I work very hard to prove I am better than everyone.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I often choose to be alone, but I never feel lonely.”
“I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.”
“I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.”
“I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill”
“I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.”
“I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.”
“I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.”
“I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.”
“I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.”
“I often conduct interviews in my truck.”
“I often confuse
a sense of futility
with a call to action.”
Source: 13th Balloon
“I often considered whether there could perhaps be found a more reasonable arrangement of circles.”
Source: Commentariolus (Perfect Library)
“I often convinced myself I had no envy of Hassan.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel
“I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.”
Source: All Together Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.”
“I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.”
Source: The Works of Lawrence Sterne: In Four Volumes, with a Life of the Author, Written by Himself
“I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.”
“I often do nothing to get somewhere.”
“I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.”
“I often don't know where my Luggage is, that's what being a tourist is all about.”
Source: The Light Fantastic
“I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.”
“I often don't feel like the person I look like.”
“I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.”
“I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.”
“I often don't read reviews.”
“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”
Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
“I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.”
“I often eat Skippys Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I dont shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.”
“I often encountered books by academics and others who had not actually done what they had written about. They tend to create artificial simplicity; their prose doesn't have the vigor of "lived words." On the other hand, many practitioners lack the context or introspection to make their experiences and understandings transferable - and, in our time, many don't actually write the books they "author." My ideal is to unify theory and practice.”
“I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, are meant to look like moons. Boluo bao look like shining suns.”
Source: Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
“I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.”
“I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and read your book and it was beautiful." Or, "Yeah, I went to the movies and all I did was watch the movie because that's all you could do at the movies." Where with music, it's like, "Ugh, I love your music. I listen to it while I'm jogging thinking about how I hate my body." But it is also the privilege of being a musician is you can have your music in this documented form and play it live and that's, I think, what draws me to it the most.”
“I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank.”
“I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.”
“I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.”
“I often feel, and ever more deeply I realise, that fate and character are the same conception.”
“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.”
Source: Leonora Carrington--the Mexican Years, 1943-1985
“I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.”
“I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.”