I Quotes
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“I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.”
“I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“I sometimes glance around during church and wonder, ‘Who else is wearing a butt plug? Just me? Nah, can’t be. Oh, that guy! He’s got something up his poop shoot for certain!”
Source: The Reluctant Master
“I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.”
Source: Cobalt Blue
“I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.”
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.”
“I sometimes go to a mythical place called "workplace", where the doable is always unpassable as possible, especially when it pisses you off.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.”
“I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!”
“I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.”
“I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.”
“I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.”
“I sometimes have deep conversations with Woody - you know, my pet tree?”
Source: Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea...”
Source: White Nights
“I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.”
“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
Source: Books & Life
“I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!”
“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.”
“I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.”
“I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.”
“I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.”
“I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed "a moment to themselves." The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment, and not a minute earlier. I've always thought that was strange, because for me that moment began much earlier. When Michel came home from school, for example, and everything was as it should be.”
“I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.
In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5”
Source: In Memoriam
“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”
“I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative.”
“I sometimes imagine meeting my seventeen-year-old self. She's still here inside me somewhere. Maybe one morning in the mirror, there she'll be. I look at her with affection and understanding and hope. She sees me and backs away in horror while I try to explain why I made the choices I made.”
Source: Varina
“I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.”
“I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.”
“I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'”
“I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.”
“I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.”
Source: Letters of Robert Schumann
“I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.”
“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”
“I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.”
“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.”
“I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.”
“I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.”
“I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.”
“I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.”
“I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.”
“I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.”
“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.”
“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.”
Source: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned
“I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.”
“I sometimes marvel at how far I’ve come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human being - only to have the illusion shattered by an episode of bad behaviour that contradicts the new and reinforces the old. At these junctures of self-reflection, I ask the question: “are all my years of hard work unraveling before my eyes, or am I just having an episode?” For the sake of personal growth and the pursuit of equanimity, I choose the latter and accept that, on this journey of evolution, I may not encounter just one bad day, but a group of many.”
Source: Death and Life
“I sometimes miss the days where I could fly a little more under the radar. There was no social media in the '90s, and it was a different world. I also miss TRL - that was always a blast!”