I Quotes
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“I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.”
“I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.”
“I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”
“I thought these were just my starter friends and the real ones would come along later. But no. These are my real friends”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad].”
“I thought they were going to kill me there and then, which would have been a relief. To my horror, they spoke words that I will never forget: ‘We are going to keep you in the cellar and let our black friends use you and when they have finished with you, we will kill you and bury you under the paving stones of Gloucester. There are hundreds of girls there, the police haven’t found them and they wont find you!”
Source: The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
“I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.”
“I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.”
“I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing... When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.”
“I thought this is how it would be if the sun died. The gentle shutting down of an organ; sleepy no longer working. No explosion at the end of life just the slow disintegration into darkness where life as we know it never wakes up because nothing reminds us that we have to.”
Source: When God Was a Rabbit
“I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.”
Source: Six-Gun Snow White
“I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.”
“I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.”
“I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.”
“I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.”
“I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.”
“I thought this sort of thing was strictly forbidden,” I say.
“Well, officially,” he says. “But everyone’s human, after all.”
I wait for him to elaborate on this, but he doesn’t, so I say, “What does that mean?”
“It means you can’t cheat Nature,” he says.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].”
“I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.”
Source: A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
“I Thought,
Thought all the time.
Thought about nothing,
But Thought!”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“I Thought, Thought, Thought, But
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I thought I would reach my destination
Without obstacles:
I thought I would overcome my opponents
With tolerating and respecting:
I thought I would win hearts and minds
With smiling and honesty:
I thought I would defeat evil-minded
With angelic character:
I thought I would execute peace
With equality and justice:
I thought I would embrace humanity
With harmony and love:
I thought I would become a hero
With that moves:
I thought my dreams would come true
With truth and determination
But ah, alas,
When I awoke from a wounded dream
I realized that
My black hair had turned white
My body features had caught wrinkles
My years had disappeared behind the journey
I stayed alone with my simplicity.
My thoughts were only thoughts
As a meaningless notion as hopeless my life.”
“I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me.
Now I’m trapped.
I cannot survive in this elevator.
Not with him,
Not for much longer
Another second.”
Source: Elevated
“I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.”
“I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”
“I thought to do something good by giving an interview to People, which was exceedingly foolish of me. I asked Aaron [Asher] to tell you that the Good Intentions Paving Company had fucked up again. The young interviewer turned my opinions inside out, cut out the praises and made it all sound like disavowal, denunciation and excommunication. Well, we're both used to this kind of thing, and beyond shock. In agreeing to take the call, and make a statement I was simply muddle-headed. But if I had been interviewed by an angel for the Seraphim and Cherubim Weekly I'd have said, as I actually did say to the crooked little slut, that you were one of our very best and most interesting writers. I would have added that I was greatly stimulated and entertained by your last novel, and that of course after three decades I understood perfectly well what you were saying about the writer's trade - how could I not understand, or miss suffering the same pains. Still our diagrams are different, and the briefest description of the differences would be that you seem to have accepted the Freudian explanation: A writer is motivated by his desire for fame, money and sexual opportunities. Whereas I have never taken this trinity of motives seriously. But this is an explanatory note and I don't intend to make a rabbinic occasion of it. Please accept my regrets and apologies, also my best wishes. I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.”
“I thought to myself how we were so wrapped up in this animal act, that he couldn’t care less about his tea shop business, and I couldn’t care less about my job.
That’s real sex that is, real passion: where you abandon all your boringly sensible thoughts, and all that tediously responsible side of yourself, as you give yourself to what you know really matters more, deep in the core of you: frantic sex.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
Source: Apology
“I thought to myself, “if tabletop RPGs were simpler, I might actually buy and play them.”
Source: The Simple Role Playing Game: Core Rule Book: Second Edition
“I thought to myself that a conversation was a strange thing that could take you almost anywhere. Often you were left stranded miles from where you had started, with no idea about how to get back.”
Source: The Monogram Murders
“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”
Source: Just Kids
“I thought to myself, time was never on my side—after all of this, it was, because it led me to the right place at the right time.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“i thought to myself well if there's a sucker out there it may as well be me for believing this jerk would stay in business if he paid all his writers like he was going to pay me. i mean he must not have even realized that poetry doesn't sell!”
Source: Dancing with the Lights Out
“I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive another and through these variations the world is made more beautiful.”
“I thought to myself, "Join the army!" It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.”
“I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.”
Source: The Most of George Burns
“I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.”
“I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.”
“I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.”
Source: The Blind Owl
“I thought to never have a family, to never have a woman I could love, physically, but when I met ye, I realized love was not merely a physical act. It was about being willing to lay down yer life for another.”
Source: The Bruised Thistle
“I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.”
“I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two." Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion. Of course not," he replied. More's the pity," Halt told him.”
“I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I’d met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn’t see me avoiding it in the grocery store.”
“I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.”
“I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright.”
“I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared in each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes it burn briefer and less bright.”
Source: The Farm
“I thought using one device would be simpler.”
“I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.”
“I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life.”
“I thought Victoria Beckham was going to be one of those pop girls, but she's absolutely the complete opposite. She's a working girl. She knows what she wants. And when she doesn't know, she really prepares herself. I love this working type of women. And she's a girl from - I don't even know where she's from.”