I Quotes
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“I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.”
“I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."”
Source: Time Flies
“I recently wanted to exercise more, and instead of trying to remind myself about all the health benefits and designing an effective (but boring) workout routine, I thought of the moments in my life when getting a workout has been the most fun.”
“I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.”
“I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.”
“I recently went for a walk in a state park and found that some of my favorite trees had collapsed. It makes me feel vulnerable, personally and for my children.”
“I recently went mad and spent 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.”
“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”
Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.”
“I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.”
“I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.”
“I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the Franco-Belgian, the Japanese manga, and the American comics. I started thinking about the relationship between Japanese manga and Japanese architecture, or Franco-Belgian bande dessinée versus Franco-Belgian architecture, it began to make sense; there are parallels to the modes of operations and the cultures they belong to. If I didn't force myself to write, I would have no forum to clarify these thoughts. Writing is really helpful.”
“I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.”
“I reckon anger is the cigarette smoking of emotions. It's toxic, self-destructive, offensive, socially unacceptable, and harmful to others; it costs a lot and always leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It's also a mongrel to try to quit.”
Source: Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent
“I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.”
“I reckon failure to be the most universal unhappiness on earth. Almost everybody and everything are failures—failures in their own estimation, even if they are not so in the estimation of others. Those optimists who always think themselves successful are few in number, and they for the most part fail in this at least, namely, that they cannot persuade the rest of the world of their success.”
Source: The Precious Blood: The Price of Our Salvation
“I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.”
Source: All the King's Men
“I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.”
“I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.”
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
“I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.”
“I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.”
“I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”
Source: McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
“I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.”
“I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man’s good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora’s a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.”
“I reckon mercy don’t ever go unrewarded – just maybe not in the way you expect.”
Source: A Rare and Dangerous Beast
“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
“I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).”
“I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.”
Source: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
“I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this to be the common lot of people who are not merely playing follow-my-leader in research.”
Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought
“I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.”
“I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.”
“I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.”
“I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.”
“I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.”
“I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.”
Source: The Help
“I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.”
“I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.”
“I reckon we always meet the people we're supposed to meet, which is why you ended up walking through that door.”
Source: The Kamogawa Food Detectives
“I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.”
Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.”
“I recognise my responsibility, and it's funny when I read people who say they never asked to be a role model, and I understand that, but as soon as you have influence over people, you have a responsibility with what you do with that influence.”
“I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.”
“I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.”
“I recognise the place, I feel at home here, but I don't belong. I am of, and not of, this place.”
Source: A New World Order : Selected Essays
“I recognised just how different Alexander was from children raised in Britain. The most obvious distinctions were his maturity and broadness of view. He hadn't lost his innocence or childish ability to play, but he enjoyed conversations with adults, and he saw no problem in playing with any child of any age. He was wonderfully gentle with the little ones. He was never fazed by differences, and cultural diversity was of interest rather than a reason for prejudice, though, - like our Nepali friends - he liked to classify people.”
Source: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas
“I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.”