I Quotes
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“I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.”
“I should tell you something about what happens after I play."
"What's that?"
He pulled her back into his arms. "I get excited...”
Source: Knights of Stone: Lachlan
“I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“I should tell you that we are awakening all of the Canidae, not merely your own species. You must tell me if that is unwelcome.”
Hell, thought Monty, shivering. All the Canidae. Wolves I can take, but foxes, jackals, dingoes, and…and…and…all those others.
“Is that a problem?” The voice was full of concern.”
Source: Cerberus
“I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.”
“I should thank you,” she whispers. Low enough that Klaus won’t hear.
"You go around thanking everyone for kissing you?”
Source: Liar Witch
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking.”
Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening
“I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.”
Source: The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts
“I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.”
“I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.”
“I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.”
“I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.”
“I should think that I had lived to little purpose if my notions on the subject of government had undergone no modification--my youth must, in that case, have been without enthusiasm, and my manhood endued with small capacity of profiting by reflection.”
“I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
Source: On Writing
“I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.”
“I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely New Collation of the Old Editions, with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage
“I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!”
Source: Pollyanna
“I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.”
Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom
“I should try to be strong, but baby, you're the right kind of wrong.”
“I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.”
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man's attention and care... [My father] insisted that I learn to do the hand labor that the land required, knowing--and saying again and again--that the ability to do such work is the source of a confidence and an independence of character that can come no other way, not by money, not by education.”
Source: The Hidden Wound
“I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.”
Source: First & Then
“I should've known better, but when I saw that empty bedroom, I couldn't not act.
Hope is a damnable thing.”
Source: Pestilence
“I should’ve known, however, that everything’s eventual. Including friendships, we think are unbreakable, no matter the glue that’s holding them together.”
Source: Ravel
“I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.”
Source: The Secret Place
“I should’ve probably warned you:
once you end a relationship with an artist,
you are perpetually reminded of them.
They have now ruined classical music and jazz for you.
They have ruined books and poetry.
You should just forget about galleries and museums.
But you know what the worst part is?
It’s how they witnessed and observed you,
making you feel like the only person in the room.
And you secretly loved being looked at,
being worshipped.
So now you avoid mirrors.
Because when you look at yourself,
you remember me.”
“I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”
Source: DUNE
“I should've told him that when I'd had a knife pulled on me for the first time, I ran faster than Carl Lewis. That the only people who survive in this world are cowards. And that true heroes are destined to die young. That the world needed him, so if anyone pulled a knife on him , he had to run faster than a speeding bullet.”
Source: Go
“I should've worn a push-up bra. Not that it would've helped any. Push-up bras only really worked if there was something to actually push up.”
Source: Eleanor & Grey
“I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.”
Source: The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany
“I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I should walk away again. But “should” could go fuck itself. Giving her up the first time nearly killed me, and hurting her again wasn’t an option.
None of it would matter if I couldn’t convince her to give me another chance. While she said she hated me, her body told another story. Her pulse had raced, and the scent of her arousal haunted me.
Plus, she kissed me back.”
Source: Blue Moon
“I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.”
Source: A Tragic Heart
“I should wallow in the luscious beauty of Italian painting and music and architecture, yes, but I would do it with the fervor of a Russian saint.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“I should warn you, I'm a quick study and drip with good luck."
"Well baby, I should warn you. When I get done with you today, you'll be dripping all right, but it won't be with luck.”
Source: Safe in His Storm
“I should warn you in advance that I want you to know me and why I became a sugar baby. Most people aren’t comfortable with the idea of older men dating younger girls and exchanging money, so it’s important to me that you get why I did what I did. And I want you to understand that the difference between being a sugar baby versus being a prostitute is the connection. Although sometimes “sugar dating” is just a code for escorting, those people are just not doing it right. To really sugar date correctly, you have to feel something for the man who takes care of you, and he has to feel something for you. And you won’t feel anything for either of us if I don’t tell you all the good and bad parts of the story. And believe me, there are a lot of good things and a lot of bad things to this story.”
Source: The Sugar Baby Club
“I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.”
“I should warn you, I’m an expert on vampires. I’ve seen every episode made of Buffy, Angel, and Forever Knight, so don’t think a little fang-flashing is going to scare me.” – Nell to Adrian Oh, my God! You bit me on the leg! You drank my blood! I am not an appetizer!” You are much more then an appetizer. You are a twelve-course banquet. – Nell & Adrian I slid my tongue around the glossy enamel of his teeth, pausing to stroke down the length of an elongated canine tooth. Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? – Nell”
“I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to in blogs and newspapers. I better get myself culturally attuned.”
“I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.”
“I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.”
“I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.”
“I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)”
Source: Mansfield Park
“I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.”
Source: Divergent Collector's Edition
“I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.”
“I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!”
“I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.”
Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats