I Quotes
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“I stumble. I balance. I keep walking. Because I know that at the end of my journey is my dream destination.”
“I stumble on this path
with an open wound
but I am not
my woundedness.”
Source: Reminders on the Path
“I stumble through a carnival of horrors”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“I stumbled away. I pressed the back of my hand to my mouth and just looked at
him. "What was that?"
His chest rose and fell heavily. "A kiss."
"Why?"
"Why?" He laughed. His blue eyes suddenly looked so sad. "Because I've wanted to do that for twenty years.”
Source: Stepping Stones
“I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.”
“I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only American gospel or soul music, it's whenever somebody decides to do music in a way that's honest and passionate. I got into the Motown songs. It had to do with where I come from - we don't really have that where I come from, the sense of mystery and the pain. Sweden has been a wealthy and happy country for some time now. I think I got really drawn to that.”
“I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass
"You told them?" I asked Trenton, my voice broken.
Trenton nodded.
I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.”
Source: Walking Disaster
“I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.”
“I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.”
“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“I stumbled out into the street, hoping that I looked like a drunken sailor. Everything was all topsy-turvy because my eyes were filled with tears. I clutched my shoes to my chest as I went. I cried loudly, not even bothering to wipe the tears and snot off my face. I just let it all pour down, allowing everybody walking by to see what this world had done to me. If a kid my age walks down the street in her socks, crying her eyes out, then it makes it a bad neighborhood. I was glad I was making their world a shitty place to live.”
Source: Lullabies for Little Criminals
“I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.”
“I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.”
“I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.”
“I stället ställde hon den fråga som flöt under alla de andra frågorna som en djup underjordisk flod. »Var jag önskad?«”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.”
“I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence. Not beautiful in the sense of "oh it's flowy" but in the sense that it really does what it's supposed to do, it what I want it to say.”
“I sublet place to place with my fiancé. We don't really have a home. I haven't had a proper home for years.”
“I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.”
Source: Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice: and the Physiology of Digestion
“I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.”
“I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.”
“I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi admitted it. So, now, when chaos reigns, they act surprised that things aren't working.”
“I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.”
Source: The Health Guide
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.”
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).”
“I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits and property rights on the one hand and human welfare on the other, there should be no hesitation whatsoever in saying that we are going to place the human welfare consideration first and let property rights and financial interests fare as best they may.”
“I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.”
“I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.”
“I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.”
“I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-Martin Luther King”
Source: Classic Wisdom for the Good Life
“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.”
“I submitted dozens of pieces for every issue, and even if only a couple made it into the magazine, I was still learning from all the rejections, too. My thought process was always: Keep writing new stuff. Don’t worry what gets accepted or rejected. Just keep moving forward and keep improving.”
Source: A Very Punchable Face
“I submitted entirely to the dog and, as a man with no gift for dancing, I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally, we kissed, the dog and I. Woke up feeling extremely satisfied.”
“I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.”
“I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head.”
“I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.”
“I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.”
“I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, "All actors are in trouble. Directors who don't help are a pain in the ass". We all need help from directors. We are all equally insecure.”
“I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.”
“I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?”
“I subscribe to the thought that it doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong. What matters is what works.”
Source: Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
“I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.”
“I succeed in life by being passionate about my dreams,”
“I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.”
“I succeeded by following the same method, which consists in regarding the problem as solved and deducing from the solution all logical consequences.”
Source: Mount Analogue
“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”
“I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.”
Source: The Difficulty of Being
“I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.”
“I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.”