I Quotes
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“I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.”
“I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.”
“I suppose the time is ripe for them now, for the people who were there. They're ready now, I think. So... they appear before us as part of their redemption."
"But you and I, we weren't to blame, were we?"
Suddenly slamming his thick palm down on the table, Uncle Some shouted, "Show me one soul who wasn't to blame!" (2007: 162)”
Source: The Guest
“I suppose the truth is I am not there, just not really there at all. I see, hear, smell, and so on, I go through the usual motions, but my heart is not in it…”
“I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.”
“I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.”
“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”
“I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.”
“I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.”
“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”
Source: Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
“I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - people didn't get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up or two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity.”
“I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t more men than jobs. It’s brought a peculiar, ghastly feeling into life. It’s like on a sinking ship when there are nineteen survivors and fourteen lifebelts. But is there anything particularly modern in that, you say? Has it anything to do with the war? Well, it feels as if it had. The feeling that you’ve got to be everlastingly fighting and hustling, that you’ll never get anything unless you grab it from somebody else, that there’s always somebody after your job, that next month or the month after they’ll be reducing staff and it’s you that’ll get the bird – that, I swear, didn’t exist in the old life before the war.”
Source: Coming Up for Air
“I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.”
Source: The Secret History
“I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.”
“I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.”
Source: What I Have Gathered
“I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier
“I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.”
“I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.”
Source: Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
“I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.”
“I suppose there’s no use in trying to fight against it anymore. My vagina likes you too much.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.”
“I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.”
Source: Obscure Destinies
“I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.”
“I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.”
“I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.”
“I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.”
“I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”
“I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.”
“I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.”
“I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.”
“I suppose. They call me ‘The Sword Arm of the Prime’, but I wouldn’t put much store in such things. They also call me a whore and a murderer… and once, once I was called ugly.” He hissed it like the word could ever be true. Beauty wasn’t everything, but whoever said that to him was obviously angry at the mischievous guy for something. It was so far from the truth it was a sin.”
Source: The Scribemaster Chronicles
“I suppose they could be balls of gas. Or
they could be something entirely. No one really knows. And even if
they are, that’s what they’re made of. Not what they truly are. Enchantrians believe each star is a spirit. Wherever you are, the
stars will go with you. They’ll light your way. That’s the way of Enchantria. Whenever we don’t know what to do, we remember that
the stars are always with us. We are never alone.”
Source: Enchantria: Sun and Flame
“I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.”
“I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.”
“I suppose this anger and manipulation was my pseudo-conscious method of giving the system, and all it entailed, the big fat birdie finger. What I failed to realize was that my inward disposition of fuming vindictiveness and self-justification only caused me to rob myself. I was giving myself the middle finger, not them.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I suppose this is for the best," Blay said into his shoulder. "You can't cook." "See? I'm so not Prince Charming.”
Source: Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.”
Source: Not That it Matters
“I suppose this is, essentially, my perspective on life. Just because we've made mistakes and learned things from them intellectually doesn't mean we won't continue to make the same mistakes over and over again.”
“I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.”
“I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.”
“I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.”
“I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.”
“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”
Source: Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters
“I suppose we all carry around different versions of ourselves”
Source: The Hunting Party
“I suppose we all have a lil' inner or outer a-hole inside of us, just waiting for the right opportunity to rear their own beautiful buttholes.”
“I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.”
Source: Collected Stories
“I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.”
Source: Myles away from Dublin: being a selection from the column written for The Nationalist and Leinster times, Carlow, under the name of George Knowall
“I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear & confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us.”
“I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.”
Source: Clockwork Angel