I Quotes
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“I picture my pain separated into fragments. Instead of getting pierced with a giant knife that has the potential to kill, I'll just be stabbed occasionally with razor blades. So when he finally leaves me for good, and the last cut is inflicted, I'll be used to the pain.”
Source: Love and Other Theories
“I picture myself at the surface of an ocean: the course of my life is played out as a descent to the sea bed. As I drop down I clutch at and try to reach blurred but alluring images representing the vocation of writer, actor, comedian, film director, politician or academic, but they all writhe and ripple flirtatiously out of reach, or rather it would be truer to say that I am afraid to leap forward and hug one of them to me. By being afraid to commit to one I commit to none and arrive at the bottom empty and unfulfilled. This is a self-aggrandizing, pitiful and absurd fantasy of regret, I know, but it is a frequent one. I close whatever book I have been reading in bed, and that same film plays out again and again in my mind before I sleep.”
Source: The Fry Chronicles
“I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.”
Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“I picture success and winning. The body has a physical response to mental images of winning.”
“I picture the customers pressing their faces to the display window outside to look at quibes, pastéis, and codfish bolinhos. I listen for our old stereo alternating between static crackling and forró songs swelling with melancholy accordions. I search for the tangy scent of ground beef simmering in a clay pot ready to turn into coxhina filling.”
Source: Salt and Sugar
“I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.”
“I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.”
Source: Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works
“I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter.”
Source: Attachments
“I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter. “I pictured you,” he said. “I just didn’t know what you looked like. “And then, when I did know what you looked like, you looked like the girl who was all those things. You looked like the girl I loved.”
“I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.”
Source: In Patagonia
“I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy.”
Source: F is for Fugitive
“I pictured Cupid sitting in a crappy little bar, drunk and depressed, while he moaned to the bartender, "That Jasmine Parks, gods, she pisses me off! Did you see what she just did? Totally blew off this immortal stud to play kiss-the-boo-boo with a fickle little rent-a-cop. Why? 'Cause she's the biggest chickenshit on the planet! I'm ready to toss my bow and pick up a bazooka!”
Source: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
“I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.”
Source: The Beginning of Everything
“I pictured hope as a candle that needed to keep burning, no matter what.”
Source: White Bird
“I pictured Locke's heart shot through with an arrow and then shook my head to get rid of the image. It wasn't like me to think things like that.
It especially wasn't like me to have a brief jolt of satisfaction from it.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.”
“I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.”
“I pictured myself falling off and getting trampled to death. Caroline would be beyond embarrassed, but I wouldn’t care because I’d be dead, and Ellie would have her fill of blood and guts until the sequel to Bloodsucking Zombies was released.”
Source: Lost in London
“I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I pictured the couple we might someday become. And in my mind, in that moment at least, they lived happily ever after.”
Source: Out of Love
“I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. “Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a tetanus shot. I think she bled on me.” Stunned silence. I often had that effect.”
Source: Twice as Hot
“I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films.”
“I [Pigpen] grew up in their clubhouse. I understand you because I am you. I also learned to crawl on the sticky floors of where guys made their oaths. But here’s the difference, I grew up watching people make stupid mistakes in the name of revenge.”
Source: Walk the Edge
“I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.”
“I piled my plate high with deviled eggs topped with caviar, pastry boats full of crab salad, tea sandwiches layered with butter and thin slices of cucumber, and warm dates stuffed with nuts and drizzled with honey. I'll say this for Mayor Gunderson: He knew how to cater an event.”
Source: Guilt and Ginataan
“I piled the cookies, their lovely violet color peeping through a light coating of powdered sugar, on a plate. I studied the offering, then added a small bowl of vanilla ice cream as well as a serving of my ube halaya, the purple-yam jam I'd used to create the cookies, to the dish. Perfect.”
Source: Arsenic and Adobo
“I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.”
“I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.”
“I pinch the sentence's butt with my other hand and tug it from my skin like a leech, smack it back on the page and clamp the book shut. Part of it's hanging out, and it waves jerkily at me with what appears to be blatant hostility. I stick the book back on the upside-down shelf over my head, pissed off sentence first, counting on the gluey base to hold it in. All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.”
Source: Iced
“I pinched tendrils of periwinkle at the roots until they hung in long, limp strands, and grabbed a dozen bright white spider mums. I wrapped the periwinkle tightly around the base of the mums like a ribbon and used florist's wire to create loose curlicues of the leafy groundcover around a multilayered explosion of mums. The effect was like fireworks, dizzying and grand.”
Source: The Language of Flowers
“I pinched the rock-hard muscle of his forearm. Rhys flashed me a wicked grin before he titled down-
Mountains and snow and trees and sun and utter free fall through wisps of cloud-
A breathless scream came out of me as we plummeted. Throwing my arms around his neck was instinct. His low laugh ticked my nape. 'You're willing to brave my brand of darkness and put up one of your own, willing to go to a watery grave and take on the Weaver, but a little free fall makes you scream?'
'I'll leave you to rot next time you have a nightmare,' I hissed, my eyes still shut and body locked as he snapped out his wings to ease to a steady glide.
'No, you won't,' he crooned. 'You liked seeing me naked too much.'
'Prick.'
His laugh rumbled again me. Eyes closed, the wind roaring like an animal, I adjusted my position, gripping him tighter.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match...so...I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.”
“I pinned my hair back, took another sip of sotwine, and went to work. I moved throughout the crowd in slow, familiar steps as I went about my dance: waiting for the right look, the proper fleeting glance, before approaching with a small smile; then, my eyes fluttering, I’d recall the best greeting, the best clever comment; or the right movements, or the right positioning; or when to look them in the eye, or look away; or when to let my hair fall in my face, and when to pin it back again. To others, the dance might have seemed artful, yet to me, it was routine. I had memorized this method over the past year as I’d moved from place to place: much like picking a lock, some combination of these gestures and exchanges worked to win the right attentions.”
Source: A Drop Of Corruption: Shadow Of Leviathan, Band 2
“I piss on you all from a considerable height.”
“I pissed away over ten million dollars
On dope and crack
I passed away deader than a door knob
But now I'm back”
“I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!”
“I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.”
“I pissed on sid one night. I got hammered and pissed on him.”
“I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“I pitam se otkud ta strašna lakomislenost, kojom se, u mladosti, odlazi u stranu zemlju? Je li to zato, što nam se čini da je život dug i da ima vremena da se vratimo? ...To znači, očigledno, da je čoveku potrebno, da zna, da se nekud ne može više vratiti, pa da uvidi kako je tamo sretan bio.”
Source: Kod Hiperborejaca I
“I pitch like my hair is on fire.”
“I pitch with emotion. I don't know any other way.”
“I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.”
“I pitied her, because she was all alone in a world full of people fixated on her, and that must be the loneliest place on Earth to be.”
Source: It's Just The Two Of Us Now: An Emir’s Oasis play by Emir Darlov
“I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.”
“I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.”
“I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.”
Source: Billy Sunday speaks
“I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes me impatient at moments when I doubt if she was meant to.”
“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”
Source: Poems