I Quotes
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“I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.”
“I thought everything has been said, until I had the inspiration to write six books in less than three years.”
“I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.”
Source: Flight Behavior
“I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'”
“I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.”
“I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.”
Source: Cage Life
“I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.”
Source: Take Me There
“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.”
“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.”
“I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.”
“I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it intensely until you felt like it was done, and then when you finished it, that was the final stage. I started to realize that that's not actually the completion of it. The final stage of any kind of art is to really lose control over it and let it affect other people. You can't control the effect that it has on people, but you hope that it has some sort of reaction. You just hope that they're not indifferent to it, you wanna make people feel something, whether it's love or hate.”
“I thought for a minute about an actor and a musician simultaneously, but I think that's always very loaded as an actor when you become a "slash," and you do an actor "slash" anything. You better be really, really good at it.”
“I thought for a minute you were going to start a war for me.”
Christian held the door open. “You’ll know when that day comes.”
Source: Blackout
“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I thought for a moment about the dog. Miffy. I guess no matter how much Rube and I complained about him, we knew we'd sort of miss him if something happened to him. It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone. Miffy, the Pomeranian wonderdog, was one such thing.”
Source: Getting The Girl
“I thought for a while, Barack Obama, although he wanted comprehensive reform had less a good chance of getting it than Donald Trump because of the Nixon goes to China factor here, where Trump can secure the border and get people on board, I think he could see comprehensive reform. Not this year, but maybe next year.”
“I thought, for certain, that Billy would be the one to give the acceptance speech. But Daisy went up to the mike instead. I thought, I hope she says something coherent. And then she did.
“BILLY: She said, ‘Thank you to everybody who listened to this song and understood this song and sang it along with us. We made it for you. For all of you out there hung up on somebody or something.’
"CAMILA: ‘For everyone hung up on somebody or something.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“I thought for our last session we should celebrate spring," Lillian said, coming out of the kitchen with a large blue bowl in her hands. "The first green things coming up through soft earth. I've always thought the year begins in the spring rather than January, anyway. I like the idea of taking the first asparagus of the year, picked right that day, and putting it in a warm, creamy risotto. It celebrates both seasons and takes you from one to the next in just a few bites."
They passed the bowl around the table, using the large silver spoon to serve generous helpings. The salad bowl came next, fresh Bibb lettuce and purple onions and orange slices, touched with oil and lemon and orange juice. Then a bread basket, heaped high with slices of fragrant, warm bread.”
Source: The School of Essential Ingredients
“I thought for sure she was the one. I felt it in my bones.
Now all I feel is remorse, because it wasn’t until ten seconds ago that I realized I’ve already moved on to another cycle. I’ve moved on to Willow.”
Source: Layla
“I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.”
“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.”
Source: Lord of the Dead
“I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.”
“I thought George Adamski was actually a fraud. Looking at him, I found him repulsive. In other words, he didn't have the wide-eyed, innocent look that Orfeo Angelucci did.”
“I thought God cannot be Fullness of Being. For Life is Motion.----- For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete Knowledge then He is Complete Non-Motion, which is Non-Life, which is Death. Therefore, if there is such a God of Fullness of Being, we would worship Death, the Father.”
Source: All the King's Men
“I thought God hated me, but really, The Most High was loving you…through me.”
“I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.”
“I thought graduation was going to be the start of my life, but I felt in limbo. When was it going to be my turn? I’d fought my depression-like hell to get to graduation, someone moved the goalpost.”
Source: Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity
“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”
Source: The Jenna Fox Chronicles
“I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.”
Source: Fat Cat
“I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.”
“I thought Hayama's talent lay in the mixing of varied exotic spices to create the perfect fragrance."
"No, his skill is in manipulating fragrance itself. He can do more than just add more spices into his recipes.
In fact, this time he subtracted spices instead. In so doing, he accentuated the freshness and flavor of the in-season pike."
"Uh, I get that much, but, like, how did he manage to get that rich of a fragrance with only one spice?
His dish's impact was on par with Ryo's!"
"Yes! Just searing not give that punch. It is inconceivable!"
"I used kaeshi sauce.
Right before serving, I brushed a thin layer of kaeshi onto the fish slices."
"Kaeshi? Does he mean the ramen soup base?!"
"Kaeshi was mentioned during the Ramen Bout in the Quarterfinals, yes. It seems this time it is being used in a purely Japanese fashion."
"Kaeshi? Like Tsubame-Gaeshi Sword Cut, yes? Kojiro Sasaki Swallow Cut!"
"I'm surprised you're familiar with that sword technique. But no, this is different.
Kaeshi is a mixture of soy sauce, mirin and sake.
It is most often diluted with dashi stock to go with noodles.
It is considered an all-purpose seasoning that can be used in almost any Japanese dish."
"No wonder! Fish meat generally does not brown easily, even when using the high, focused heat of a blowtorch.
But the sugars present in kaeshi make that easier!
It also prevents the heating time from dragging out too long and ruining the freshness of the fish.
"
"The fatty acids of the fish mix with the sugars in the kaeshi. Add heat and they will sizzle and boil.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 12 [Shokugeki no Souma 12]
“I thought he had been shot.”
“I thought he had come to save my life.”
Source: Sonora
“I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display”
Source: Weyward
“I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.”
“I thought he might kiss me as we sat shivering on the bank of the spring with our clothes soaked through and our feet dangling in the steaming water. We looked into each other's eyes the way I'd always imagined people did right before they leaned in closer and touched lips for the first time. But that was all we did. We looked at each other. Into each other. We were still clutching hands.”
Source: The Summer I Learned to Fly
“I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.”
Source: Other Words for Love
“I thought he should know the truth.
"Some say that I'm a ... well a ..." I hated to say what others teased me mercilessly about... "A... slow learner."
He shrugged as if to indicate that it didn't mean anything to him, but seemed anxious about what to say to console me. Finally, he reached out and touched my hand. "Yeah, but they don't have life mates whose destines are written in the stars." I wanted to groan out loud. I was a slow learner and was to be mated with a vampiric human whose old flame wanted me dead. How was this a good thing?”
Source: The Vampire...In My Dreams
“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.”
“I thought he was someone I wanted to know. As it turns out, it was a case of
mistaken identity.”
“I thought he was the one who needed me, but in truth, he kept me sane in this chaotic world I stumbled into.”
Source: Modus
“I thought he worked for Heaven.' I thought I was in love.”
Source: Forgiven
“I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me." Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed. "I know I'm selfish" "You're human" "I wanted him to abandon his children”
“i thought healing
would feel like forgetting
like erasing your name
from every corner of my mind
there were days
when your ghost sat beside me
and i almost let it stay
but healing is learning to live
without inviting the past to the table”
Source: Prisoner
“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”
“I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.”
“I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.”
“I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring the talk always to vulgar, low levels. Even his presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.”
“I thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I place my head down at night or the color of my furniture. Home is the people I surrounded myself with, the ones I break bread with. The keepers of my secrets and my fears. It is to be loved and to give love without inhibitions.”
Source: Dealing in Dreams