I Quotes
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“I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.”
“I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.”
“I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.”
“I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.”
“I often feel like I'm simply haunting the world I inhabit.”
Source: The Haunting of Grosvenor House
“I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.”
Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.”
“I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters. I guess it might also be worth noting that anyone I've had as a main character in a story I've written has had full knowledge that I am a writer who writes about the people in her life.”
“I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny." I thought, She knows better than anyone.”
“I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.”
“I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.”
“I often feel people underestimate the simple joy the presence of someone you love can bring to any situation, regardless of how dour.”
Source: At Her Fingertips
“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”
“I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.”
Source: Gratitude
“I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.”
“I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.”
“I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.”
“I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.”
“I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.”
“I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.”
“I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.”
“I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.”
“I often felt like a very old person trapped in a young person’s body.”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.”
“I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers' voices be heard, but they should actually have a seat at the table. You have the old boys' club discussing how the old boys' club should be reformed.”
“I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.”
“I often felt nervous passing through the hallway of my own home, and the Golden State was simply where I lived. For me, there was no California Dreaming. I just was, at the center of it all.”
Source: Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl
“I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon.”
Source: The Summer Without Men
“I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.”
“I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.”
“I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.”
“I often find myself being at my job, but thinking and writing for my work.”
“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.”
“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”
“I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.”
“I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.”
“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.”
“I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.”
“I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.”
“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
Source: Killosophy
“I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.”
“I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.”
“I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.”
“I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.”
Source: Where Things Come Back
“I often get a particular wrinkled-nose look from Mom: mild revulsion mixed with fondness, as if she can’t quite believe she made me, this large, sometimes stinky, always untidy boy who double dips and chugs orange juice out of the carton even though she begs me not to.”
Source: This Boy
“I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.”
“I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.”