I Quotes
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“I stood under the arch and absorbed the image.
Rose and blue and ancient oriental rugs held pale pink loveseats with curved arms and perfectly faded silk upholstery. Sheer white-winged angels floated on a ceiling of baby-blue sky with clouds of spun gold. And eastern-facing windows of blue stained glass held paler blue stained-glass crosses in the middle. Daylight and streetlamps were obliterated by thick velvet curtains with gold tasseled ropes, and a small, dusty beam of faded light managed to seep past the heavy drapes, making it look like the tail end of the day instead of the early part of the afternoon.
His home was lavish and seductive, and I thought it rare that a man living alone could create a thing of such intensity. For the second time in two days I found myself having to adjust my opinion of Michael Bon Chance.
It was a marble fountain that ended my reverie and brought me back down to earth. It was the true centerpiece of the room, with water slowly seeping from a cracked jug and dripping over a statue of a nude couple, bathing. I cringed at the sound.
Michael looked at me.
"Something wrong?"
"It's the dripping."
He went over to the bar and poured me a glass of wine.
"You're tense. Maybe this will help."
I took a sip from the glass and put it down on the fireplace mantel. I caught a glimpse of Michael and myself in the mirror above the fire and felt trapped by how beautiful we looked in the rose glow of the dragon's-head lamps with pale pink bulbs.”
Source: Scent of Darkness
“I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“I stood up and... there he was. My new roommate, standing right in front of me. He looked like he'd just stepped out from a magazine photo shoot, his hair artfully tousled and falling perfectly over his forehead. He was standing much closer to me than he had when I'd toured his apartment, and he seemed to notice that, too, his eyes widening and nostrils flaring a little as though he was breathing me in. He was dressed even more formally than he'd been the night I'd met him, adding a red silk ascot and black top hat to the charcoal-gray three-piece suit that fit like the gods had made it specifically for him.
It was an odd look, to be sure. But--- god help me--- it worked. My mouth watered for reasons having nothing to do with hunger.
If he noticed how overwhelmed I was by his appearance, he showed no sign of it. He simply frowned, brow furrowed in concern. He stepped a little closer. He smelled like fabric softener, the citrus fruit he'd put in my bedroom, and something deep and mysterious I had no name for.”
Source: My Roommate Is a Vampire
“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.”
Source: The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no
“I stood up as determination rushed through me. I would fight like hell for my life.”
Source: My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace
“I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.”
“I stood up, leaving a pool of sweat on the mat below. I saw the outline of my body imprinted in sweat on the chalky blue mat. A sweat angel. How gross, I thought. 'Look, Mihai,' I said, pointing at it. 'That's the sign of a hard worker right there.”
Source: Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
“I stood up there for two solid minutes without saying another word. There wasn't one great thing I could say about that man--so I just stared silently at the crowd until my mother realized what I was doing and had my uncle remove me from the podium."
Ryle tilts his head. "Are you kidding me? You gave the anti-eulogy at your own father's funeral?"
I nod. "I'm not proud of it. I don't think. I mean, if I had my way, he would have been a much better person and I would have stood up there and talked for an hour."
Ryle lies back down. "Wow," he says, shaking his head. "You're kind of my hero. You just roasted a dead guy.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“I stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.”
Source: Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
“I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.”
“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”
Source: Dexter in the Dark
“I stood upon the sandy shore
As evening shadows fell;
The sun was sinking in the west
Across the ocean swell.
O’er the sea the sun was casting
Each brightly tinted ray
As the waves came sweeping onwards
To the shore at Martins Bay.
The moon was rising o’er the hills
As the sun sank in the west,
And her silvery light was gleaming
On the ocean’s heaving breast.
And those ever moving waters
Sparkling brightly as they roar
Are dashed in foaming billows
On that wild and lonely shore.
All around are wooded hills
No matter where your eyes are turning;
You see no human habitation
Except where one lone light is burning.
Here solitude doth reign supreme,
All scenes are lonely and drear,
But there’s music in the lonlineness
Which solitude will make us hear.
A whispering sound among the trees,
There is music in the ocean’s roar,
There’s a voice in the wandering breeze
Which is sighing along the shore.
And the voice of nature speaks to us
In every flower that grows,
And the voice of God is calling us
In every breeze that blows.”
Source: The Pioneers of Martins Bay
“I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.”
Source: Catspaw
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
Source: Upstream: Selected Essays
“I stood with my hands on the horses' necks, feeling the electricity of their thinking, the blood moving throughout their veins, and the history held neatly within the fabric of every organ of their equine anatomy, as if the body were a storage unit of memory. As I absorbed every nuance of the four-legged creatures, I touched my own stomach, lower back, liver, and spleen to see what the energies felt like. I compared one horse to another, then to myself, fascinated by the way each was so unique yet so the same.”
Source: Memoirs of the Bathtub Psychic - The True Story of a Clairvoyant and Her Dogs
“I stoop into my longings, plot a seed in every corner. Last week
I titled another page within my body
and surrendered every bending, spitting line of myself
to the making.”
Source: Another Way to Split Water
“I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.”
“I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.”
“I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.”
“I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.”
“I stop being afraid of relocations and I can move wherever I want because I know that I will be loved constantly across all space. And even if it fades with them, it will bloom again. We are all conduits. It moves through us freely.”
Source: Freshwater
“I stop believing in the future. There's a character in Jacqueline Woodson's novel 'If You Come Softly' who says that he looks into the future and sees only 'this big blank space where I should be.' When I think of the future, I start to only see the big blank space, the whyless bright terror. As for the present, it hurts. Everything hurts. The pain ripples beneath my skin, bone-shocking. What's the point of all this pain and yearning? Why?”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I stop dead in my tracks. Someone behind me walks into me and swears (stopping abruptly in central London is a heinous crime, and immediately gives the people around you permission to kick you).”
Source: The Flatshare
“I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt”
Source: Second Grave on the Left
“I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.”
Source: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
“I stop reading after half an hour. I’ve had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We’re facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we’ve got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.”
Source: Demon Apocalypse
“I stop short of being a workaholic.”
“I stop somewhere, waiting for you.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I stop, staring into the teardrop-shaped room, my heartbeat an alive and determined creature trying to claw its way out of my throat.”
Source: Ice Like Fire
“I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He’s completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off.”
Source: Hopeless
“I stop, thinking of Topher and his cushioned, monied existence--the way he has had everything handed to him on a plate, the way he's never had to scrap for anything, never had to swallow a snub from a boss, or pick up a stranger's dirty underwear, or do any of the myriad demeaning, boring jobs the rest of us take for granted.
They are arrogant, that's what I realize--maybe not Liz and Carl quite so much, but all of them to some degree. They are protected by the magic of their shares and their status and their IP. They think that life can't touch them--just like I used to do.
Only now it has. Now life has them by the throat. And it won't let go.”
Source: One by One
“I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.”
“I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.”
“I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.”
Source: Moon crossing bridge: poetry
“I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.”
“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.”
Source: Wayfaring Stranger
“I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.”
“I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.”
“I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.”
“I stopped asking why , rather prayed for guidance to know why.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world.”
“I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age but balding and homely and FAT. Three glazed jelly doughnuts AND two steaming cups of extra-dark HOT chocolate opened to the comics and it struck me that I was infinitely better-looking, more successful and richer than this poor bastard would ever be and so with a passing rush of sympathy I smiled and nodded a curt though not impolite good morning without lodging a complaint.”
Source: American Psycho
“I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.”
“I stopped being a people pleaser the moment I realised my needs matter too.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I stopped being able to feel a great many things as we killed and killed...”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.”
“I stopped by the mirror
by the window of my room
the shadows from within asked ' why did they leave? '
such a lovely sparkling soul, a girl so naive but funny
why did they 'have' to leave ?
what would have 'made' them leave ?.. I looked deep and deeper
through bones and flesh
and uncovered one by one
the layers of my low self esteem,
of no confidence,
of pain and hurt
unsaid unheard
and sighed..
and within that moment
of sheer nakedness it dawned upon me
how could they ever have stayed?.. for down the porch.. out in the garden..
for times ago.. our souls had never played together as children
how could they have stayed I smiled,
for I had to find my way to you, I had to come home,
to the girl so naive but funny”