I Quotes
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“I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.”
“I once again fought against the desire to bitch-slap a faerie”
Source: Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
“I once aged 90 years old in one episode.”
“I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.”
“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'”
“I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.”
Source: The works of Laurence Sterne
“I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".”
“I once asked a schizophrenic man, "Why does the sun come up in the morning?" His reply was "Tomorrow." I looked at him blankly. When I requested explanation, he said, "Didn't you ever see Annie? The sun'll come up, tomorrow," and he burst into song. Instead of addressing the question from a factual point of view, he simply referred to an idiosyncratic association he had to my question. Adult thinking is universal and understandable by all who speak-a da language. It is a core symptom of schizophrenia, this regressive type of autistic thinking typical of children-or at least we evolutionists think so and most psychiatrists do as well.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.”
“I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.”
Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing
“I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.”
“I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.”
“I once asked God in a dream if I could see the world, he answered me, "When you die I will show you more than that boring world has to offer. I promise." Am I silly to think he will make good on his promise to me? I think we will be traveling to different galaxies, into the universe next door, out in space where a black hole will no longer be a mystery but a radiant sight to see. I do, I think he will find me upon my death and fly with me into the depths of his creation.”
“I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.”
“I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.”
Source: Storyville
“I once asked him, “How come there are no women in the history book?” He said, “Because women never did anything.” …. I used to sit in these trees and watch the boys in my class play ball. Girls were not allowed to be in Little League. At the time, I asked why. The adult said, “Girls would hurt themselves.” This made no sense to me. I thought, Boys are more likely to hurt themselves than girls are, because they have fragile stuff on the outside that girls don’t have to worry about. The adult also said, “Girls don’t like sports.” That also made no sense to me, either, because I thought, I love sports, and I’m always one of the very first to be chosen for teams in the neighborhood, when it’s just the kids doing the choosing. And aren’t I a girl?”
Source: Stealth Camping with Hundreds of My Closest Friends
“I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".”
“I once asked Master B.P. Chan if the ancient qigong and martial arts masters had superior abilities to those of the present. He said, "In general, yes. But only because they were more patient." ... Most students abandon the practice and look for a new form of "entertainment". But it is precisely at this stage that the most lasting benefits are cultivated.”
Source: The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing
“I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.”
“I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'”
“I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.”
“I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose or nail down gender or race, for that matter.”
“I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'”
Source: Oh, the Things I Know!
“I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.”
“I once banged out a story in Peshawar, Pakistan, while eating a chicken salad sandwich, as demonstrators shouted their displeasure of all things American in the glow of burning flags and some steel-edged radials. I was told, by well-meaning people, that I should tell the angry crowds that I was, in fact, Canadian.
I just looked at them.
How in the world do you pretend to be from Calgary, when you talk like me?
I thought briefly, I would say I was from Alabama, and hope they didn’t know exactly where that was, but I am pretty sure that, if I had, someone would answer back:
“Roll Tide.”
Source: My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
“I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.”
Source: Healology
“I once begged those who were not even worth talking to.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.”
“I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.”
“I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.”
“I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?”
“I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!”
“I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.”
“I once bought a painting of a leopard. It was very expensive but I could not leave the gallery without it. I did not understand why I had to have it; it was simply love at first sight.
One day I showed it to a friend who came to visit me. "I still do not understand what it is about this leopard that made me have to have him," I stated as we both gazed upon the creature looking back at us from the canvas.
"All you need to do is to look at him and ask yourself what it is about him that reminds you of you...and you will have your answer."
Everything is our mirror. We are all continually trying to fall in love with ourselves.”
“I once bought a piece of land for half its valued price. It emerged it was incorrectly listed by the realtor and was not showing up in local land searches!”
“I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it”
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
Source: Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
“I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.”
Source: The Jane Austen Book Club
“I once buggered a man unconscious. I'm lying, he was already unconscious when I found him”
“I once buried a pebble in the garden
and prayed it would bloom into a person.
It didn’t.
But I visit it still.
Because some of us learn early
that silence, too,
wants company.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.”
“I once caught a bid, I never hit skid,
Never date a girl if the girl got a kid.
Nahhh...papa's got a brand new bag
And I never hit skinz once they sag.”
“I once commented that in the sword-and-sorcery story, the seamy underside is always rape; that where men seek adventure, one of the things they seem to seek is women to be distributed as prizes or objects.”
Source: Sword and Sorceress
“I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'”
“I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.”
“I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.”
“I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now, you could say he was all right, because he was able to jump. But you could also say he was not all right, because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.”
“I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.”