I Quotes
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“I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.”
“I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?”
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.”
Source: Dracula
“I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a "dysfunctional" family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of the reason was that all of my extended kin had families at least as dysfunctional as mine. Just to give a little of the flavor of it, my "Aunt Fern," who lived just across the street and was one of the most present and puissant female relatives in my life, was, to be genealogically precise, my mother's brother's, first wife's, second husband's, father's, 3rd, 4th, and 5th wife. (She married "Uncle Lew" three times in the course of her seven matrimonial ventures.)”
“I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”
“I suppose it's all a matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to - the rules, the idiots who think they're hot shit,...”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I suppose it's impossible to say that they will not invent anything else, because they might," said Zubria. "And, of course, if one thought of something that they might invent, one would have thought of it oneself, therefore one would be the inventor of what one thought of, and they would not be, which would make one an inventor, like them.”
Source: Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle
“I suppose it should bother me to be so hated but, without it, I wouldn’t have the delight of torturing them with my presence. What can I say? My cheerful spirit can’t help but spot silver linings.”
Source: Crushed
“I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse”
“I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.”
“I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
“I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.”
“I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.”
“I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.”
“I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.”
“I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“I suppose it's knowing when you've come up with an idea that works, when you've got it right, whatever it is.”
“I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
“I suppose it's nice that I've made films that some people have heard of and respect. That's great. And it's certainly helpful in some regards, but they're really tough economic prospects. They always have been, and that's not necessarily getting any better. And not just the films, but it's also been a rough 10 years for that independent film market. And so I have stumbled onto this point in the timeline where the kind of stuff that I'm trying to do is not... it was a lot easier to know what to do with it 20 years ago.”
“I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.”
“I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
Source: Trouble (poetry, contemporary)
“I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.”
Source: Ill Met by Moonlight
“I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?”
Source: Travels with Alice
“I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.”
Source: What Makes Sammy Run?
“I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.”
“I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.”
“I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.”
“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”
“I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.”
“I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.”
“I suppose I’ll have to clean up Freddy’s brains; I hate to leave a mess for the home owners. Hand me that plastic bag; I need to put it over his head to keep him from leaking. Oh, relax, Freddy; I’ll tear an airhole for you.” - Mercer”
“I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.”
“I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.”
“I suppose knowing where you are is better than having you skulk around, popping out of dark alleys and doorways. It eliminates the possibility of shooting you by accident. If I know where you are, I can shoot you on purpose.”
Source: Gabriel's Fire
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
“I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.”
“I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature.”
“I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown
but simply couldn't bear the others
carrying my body down three flights of stairs
to the round mouths of curious biddies...
the world has been darker than lights out
in a closet full of hungry bats,
and the whiskey and wine entered our veins
when blood was too weak to carry on;
and it will happen to others...”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned
“I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor... It's pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else.”
“I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.”
Source: Where You Are
“I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.”
“I suppose maybe [Wilson] would be a better person if he were able to censor himself, but then he wouldn't be as interesting.”
“I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.”
“I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.”
“I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.”
“I suppose more than anything, chefs have gotten better, which is great news, which makes my life a lot easier. I can be a lot more creative in terms of the menu.”
“I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.”