I Quotes
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“I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants”
“I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.”
“I sometimes think the entire human species is just a fucked-up tapestry woven out of little particles of prolonged sadness, living next to one another in sustained dissonance, reacting to each other and to the bitter truths of the Universe, replicating themselves and their sorrow on and on and on, with no end in sight save for the virus that finally wipes us and our grotesque dysfunction from the surface of the planet once and for all.”
Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays
“I sometimes think the fundamental disconnect with civilians is that they think a war is an event, something neatly bounded on either end by dates. What anyone who’s lived through one can tell you is that it’s actually a place. You’re there and the. You leave, but places don’t stop existing just because you aren’t looking at them.”
“I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
And every Bulrush on the river bank
A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.”
“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past”
Source: Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People
“I sometimes think there is nothing more painful than love denied. To love someone you cannot have, to stand beside your heart's desire and be unable to take them in your arms. A love that cannot be requited. I can think of nothing more painful than that.”
Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“I sometimes think there is nothing more painful than love denied. To love someone you cannot have, to stand beside your hearts desire and be unable to take them in your arms. A love than cannot be requited. I can think of nothing more painful than that.”
Source: The Wicked Ones
“I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”
Source: Vincent Van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings : Exhibition
“I sometimes think there's two sides to the commandment; and that we may say, 'Let others do unto you, as you would do unto them,' for pride often prevents our giving others a great deal of pleasure, in not letting them be kind, when their hearts are longing to help; and when we ourselves should wish to do just the same, if we were in their place.”
Source: Mary Barton
“I sometimes think to myself, you're not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the TV with your DVR. As much as it's great, and there are so many good shows on TV, and I have great books that I'm reading, get out and interact with people.”
“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
“I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.”
Source: The Forge of God
“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.”
Source: Adventures in Friendship
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”
Source: Dracula
“I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.”
“I sometimes think with Moliere, Mr. Ridge, that ‘there is no folly equal to he who attempts to mend the world.’”
A single, unsuppressed laugh escaped him. “Yes,” he reluctantly replied, “but I cannot but help to attempt it, nonetheless.”
Source: Red Clay, Running Waters
“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.
'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.”
Source: Phineas Finn
“I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.”
“I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.”
“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”
“I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow?”
“I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.”
“I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.”
“I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.”
“I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment. Happinesses have wings and wheels; miseries are leaden legged, and their whole employment is to clip the wings and to take off the wheels of our chariots. We determine, therefore, to be happy and do all we can, tho' not all that we would.”
Source: Works of William Blake
“I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare, and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring, and co-operation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!”
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Our Inner Ape”
“I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!”
Source: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”
“I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.”
“I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.”
“I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.”
“I sometimes use the word “fat,” as I consider it to be an accurate descriptor of some curvy gals, including me. I believe using “fat” in a nonpejorative way helps destigmatize and inure us to the word as the insult it’s become, and gets us used to seeing it as it was meant to be used: As a neutral descriptor. I use the words curvy, plus-size, zaftig, plump, larger, and bigger in the same spirit. Some of these words may make you bristle at first, but they are not meant negatively but solely as adjectives.”
Source: Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life
“I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.”
“I sometimes used to wish I could hit pause for six months or a year and now it’s like the universe called my bluff.”
“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”
“I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.”
“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.”
“I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.”
“I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.”
“I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.”
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the question of any childhood. To write about your mother and father is to tell the story of your own close call, to count all the ways you never should have existed. To write about home is to write about how you dropped from space, dragging ellipses behind you like a comet, and how you entered your country and state and city, and finally your four-cornered house, and finally your mother's body and finally your own. From the galaxy to the grain and back again. From the fingerprint to the grand design. Despite all the conspiracies of the universe, we are here; every moment we are here we arrive.”
Source: Priestdaddy
“I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.”
“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.”
“I sometimes wish to face difficulty, challenges, it makes me stronger, wiser, more humble, kinder and the main going beyond my actual potential, yeah you read that right thank you.”
“I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.”
“I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.”
Source: A Peculiar Treasure