I Quotes
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“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.”
“I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.”
“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”
“I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“I seemed alone with Death absolute! It was not the absence of everything I felt, but the presence of Nothing.
The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understand it.”
Source: Lilith
“I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.”
Source: Confessions of a Mask
“I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.”
“I seemed to be falling backward toward my mother, my grandmother, the chain of mute or angry women I came from.”
Source: The Lost Daughter
“I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.”
“I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”
Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.”
“I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it was more in the direction of where it was headed. I didn't have a clue as to the drawing style, because the drawing style that I was groomed on from the beginning was newspaper comic strips, which were much more conventional.”
“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.”
Source: Frankenstein
“I seemed to have lost my husband and best friend simultaneously – and to each other.
Something warned me that I would get back either both or none.
- #Draupadi”
Source: Arjun: Without a Doubt
“I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.”
“I seemed to hear a voice of lamentation out of the Golden Age. It told me that we are imperfect, incomplete, and no more like a beautiful woven web, but like a bundle of cords knotted together and flung into a comer. It said that the world was once all perfect and kindly, and that still the kindly and perfect world existed, but buried like a mass of roses under many spadefuls of earth. The faeries and the more innocent of the spirits dwelt within it, and lamented over our fallen world in the lamentation of the wind-tossed reeds, in the song of the birds, in the moan of the waves, and in the sweet cry of the fiddle. It said that with us the beautiful are not clever and the clever are not beautiful, and that the best of our moments are marred by a little vulgarity, or by a pin-prick out of sad recollection, and that the fiddle must ever lament about it all. It said that if only they who live in the Golden Age could die we might be happy, for the sad voices would be still; but alas! alas! they must sing and we must weep until the Eternal gates swing open.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
“I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.”
“I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.”
“I seemed to slip in a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.”
“I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.”
“I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.”
“I seen fellas like you before. You ain’t askin’ nothin’; you’re jus’ singin’ a kinda song. ‘What we comin’ to?’ You don’ wanta know. Country’s movin’ aroun’, goin’ places. They’s folks dyin’ all aroun’. Maybe you’ll die pretty soon, but you won’t know nothin’. I seen too many fellas like you. You don’t want to know nothin’. Just sing yourself to sleep with a song—‘What we comin’ to?”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn.
"Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?"
On the A Train, pickin at her brain,
I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name.
I said, "I still like your style and fashion,
But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion.
Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot?
Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?"
She turned away, no play, I said, "OK,
You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."”
“I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.”
“I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.”
“I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.”
Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
“I seen the look in your eyes...I reached out to touch you but feared I would mark your skin. I do not want just tonight, my love. I want to know that always...always...you will be mine.”
“I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.”
“I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.”
Source: The Wolf Road
“I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.”
“I seize the faults – to quit.
But never ever, I enlist
The intent of relinquishing
The adequacy of my life;
If it gets chosen:
I may cast it off,
Unless I rase it off:
It surely would never go
Out of my eternal clench.”
Source: The Analecta
“I seize the moment and create bliss, right now!”
Source: Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
“I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.”
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”
“I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.”
“I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!”
“I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your world shape. I always look at these things like haiku: you have to work within certain parameters, but within them, you’re completely free.”
“I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.”
“I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.”
“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies
“I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.”
“I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.”
“I seldom lie,' he said.”
Source: The Dark Design
“I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.”
“I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.”
Source: Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958
“I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.”