I Quotes
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“I took three steps back; he nudged the door closed with his foot. “You like Mexican?” he asked. “I—” I’d like to know what you’re doing inside my house! “Tacos?” “Tacos?” I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. “Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese.” “I know what a taco is!”
Source: Hush, Hush
“I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.”
“I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.”
“I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.”
“I took time to examine the garments more carefully. Not only could they help clothe me for the summer, but they might also provide insights into the history of Whistling Tor. The library held the ink and parchment records set down by men. But that was only half the story. Women talked to their daughters and granddaughters, weaving memories. If no living women remained, one might still learn something from what they had left behind: a garden planted in a certain pattern, a precious possession set away with careful hands, a gravestone for a beloved pet. And clothing. I did not know who had owned these gowns, these delicate undergarments, but perhaps they had something to tell me.”
Source: Heart's Blood
“I took to heart what Isohar had taught us. He said that there are four types of readers. There is the reading sponge, the reading funnel, the reading colander, and the reading sieve. The sponge absorbs everything it comes into contact with; and it is evident he remembers much of it later, too. But he is not able to filter out what is most important. The funnel takes in what he reads at one end, while at the other, everything he's read pours out of him. The strainer lets through the wine and keeps the sediment; he ought not to read at all -- it would be infinitely better if he simply dedicated himself to some manual trade. The sieve, on the other hand, separates out the chaff, to give a result of only the finest grains.
'I want you to be like sieves, and to discard all that is not good or interesting,' Isohar would say to us.”
Source: The Books of Jacob
“I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.”
“I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.”
“I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.”
Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
“I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.”
“I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.”
“I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my heart being broken. I wrote about my views whether they were liberal or conservative. I wrote about everything. I wrote about my life. When I did not have paper coming in as green backs, I'd use random pieces of paper for stories. It was like, I got no money, but I have paper to write. So I wrote.”
“I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.”
“I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.”
“I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.”
“I took two years away from making films to write a novel.”
“I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.”
“I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!”
“I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.”
“I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.”
“I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.”
“I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.”
“I took up my knife and fork and--- well, I simply held them, and kept still; for the boy had inclined his head and was saying a silent grace. A thousand hallowed memories of home and my childhood poured in upon me, and I sigh to think how far I had drifted from religion and its balm for hurt minds, its comfort and solace and support.”
Source: A Curious Experience
“I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments”
Source: Girls on Fire
“I took up the letter. On seeing the first line I knew it directly, but could not hold back from reading the whole thing, not once but many times, for it was the only love letter I had received in my life.”
Source: As meat loves salt
“I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.”
“I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.”
“I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.”
“I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.”
Source: Ten Days in a Mad-House
“I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.”
“I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for a wide number of people. It was recognised by other martial artists, grandmasters and such, and they gave me the recognition. I'm proud of my work in martial arts. I still teach but only once a week in a private class, and I train a couple more days a week.”
“I took whatever the devil offered me.”
“I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.”
“I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great detail of the Flyte family. Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, Charles, it has killed you.'
[Anthony Blanche to Charles Ryder]”
Source: Brideshead Revisited
“I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.”
“I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away”
“I tore claws through my own wings once. I wanted to know what it was like to be unable to fly. I didn't enjoy the experience, of not flying that is. Shredding my own wings wasn't fun either. - The Malwatch”
“I tore my nails into my stomach ripping a hole big enough to put my hand into me with blind fingers feeling between intestines and liver for the flower of me, until I found it, pulling it out, holding it in my bloody right hand until my left got hold of my soul and I took the two and smashed them together until they became a solid piece of total beauty for me to throw with all my strength into the stars.”
“I tore my reality apart trying to get back to you.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
“I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries
“I tore open a bag of truffle chips---really truffle-flavored potato chips---that cost $3.95: a novelty I'd never buy on my own. I shook them onto a small plate and the scent of truffles, at once earthy and faintly metallic, filled the air. That scent always triggers a free-floating longing in me, the ache of a bittersweet memory, but with no specific memory attached. (Did such poignancy make the chips worth twice as much as the Lay's?)”
Source: Search
“I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“I tore out his tongue,' Kieran announced, and both Casteel and I looked at him. 'What?' The Wolven shrugged. 'He annoyed me.'
Well,' Casteel murmured. 'Okay, then.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.”
“I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.”
“I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.”
“I toss my clothes on the nearest rock, feeling the breeze on my skin. With no hesitation, I dive in, the cool water wrapping around me like silk.”
Source: Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance