I Quotes
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“I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“I’ve always like Medieval literature. As a young girl I read mythologies and Norse legends, that sort of thing. I loved Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While I was studying at Middle Tennessee State University for doctoral program I came in contact with more ancient literature. I examined older literature more seriously which intrigued and fascinated me very much; I was drawn to it.
For the book I used all my own translations of Beowulf from my doctorate. Culture is contained in language, if you study a language you’ll see bits of culture, because the words are different and you see into the lives of the people. The Anglo-Saxon language touched me very deeply. Some of it is the heroic. Some of it is the melancholy. But there is also honor. You uphold, you fight to the death. Even if you watch movies, like Marvel comic book movies, like Thor: you want the great ones to win. Its even better if they have a fault. But you want the heroic character to win.”
“I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.”
“I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium!”
“I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time.”
Source: Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
“I’ve always liked you, from the first moment I saw you at the Pigafetta Stadium.” He kept his distance because he wanted her too much. “And ever since that day, I knew that you were in love with another guy, and that he would sooner or later feel the same way I did.” Cutting ties with her was excruciatingly painful. “I just hoped that he would be stupid enough to let me have you,” he gasped. “But he wasn’t.”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“I've always lived a life of faith, but not the faith of the scripture, but that of selflessness.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“I’ve always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.”
“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within which I can lie down and disappear from sight.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.”
“I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?”
Source: Orient
“I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.”
“I’ve always loved finding things in my environment that bring me joy and excitement! How fun it is to become aware of your surroundings!”
“I've always loved funky rustic quilts more than elegant and maybe lovelier ones. You see the beauty of homeliness and rough patches in how they defy expectations of order and comfort. They have at the same time enormous solemnity and exuberance. They may be made of rags, torn clothes that don't at all go together, but they somehow can be muscular and pretty. The colors are often strong, with a lot of rhythm and discipline and a crazy sense of order. They're improvised, like jazz, where one thing leads to another, without any idea of exactly where the route will lead, except that it will refer to something else maybe already established, or about to be. Embedded in quilts and jazz are clues to escape and strength, sanctuary and warmth. the world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?”
Source: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott
“I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.”
Source: A&B
“I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam”
Source: Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever
“I've always loved reading. When I was in first grade I became fascinated by time travel in the Magic Treehouse series. My love for magic continued into the second grade when I was reading Harry Potter, and then the following year I really got interested in history. So in fifth grade I decided to write a book that I would love to read. I decided to combine time travel, magic, and history, and created the Stone of Discedo. It's a time-traveling stone that requires the user to first fix three terrible events in history before they change anything in their own life, and that became the foundation for the story of One Chance.”
Source: One Chance
“I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11”
“I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.”
“I’ve always loved the magic of music. The right song can be a magic spell capable of seducing you and making you fall in love. It can touch you in the most intimate of ways, all the way to the hidden parts of your heart. It’s magic at its finest.”
Source: Play by Heart
“I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.”
Source: Porcelain Utopia
“I’ve always loved this, what silly people disregard as humping but what aficionados call frottage – this feeling a guy over every inch of me, forehead to toes.”
Source: Homo Action Love Story! A tall tale
“I've always loved to read, probably for the same reason I dreamed of adventure. There is freedom and excitement in slipping on other personas, in pretending to be someone you're not.”
Source: The Cuban Heiress
“I’ve always loved wild people, and Sixteen-String Jack Rann reminds so much of my mate, Dave Brotherton, that it’s uncanny. Not that Dave was ever a highwayman – although he may well have been in a past life – but like Jack he was born with a wild hair up his arse, and that’s all there is to it. He has a savage charisma about him that radiates out of the chaos of his life. His energy comes at you from all directions and watching Dave, when he’s on form, is like trying to keep your eyes on the pattern the sun makes as it bounces off the waves at dusk”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“I’ve always loved you, Adriene. I just didn’t know it until I saw you. - Blake Garrett”
Source: Words Spoken True
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“I've always loved you. Even as a child- in a time I don't remember- I already loved you.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”
“Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.”
Source: Tempting the Bride
“I’ve always maintained that a woman in possession of a vast imagination would want for nothing in life. She’d be superior to those with such fleeting virtues as wit, beauty, or accomplishment. The richest woman in the world, if only in her mind.”
Source: A Rivalry of Hearts
“I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.”
Source: Flesh and Blood
“I've always noticed a scary thing - the most cruel and evil people keep wandering around religious places. Be it temples, mosques, gurudwara or churches.
I'm not sure about yours, but it's been baffling to see.
Have you noticed that too?”
“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.”
“I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives, who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard, you would become rich. The meaning of that was, if you were poor, it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie—about my father, and millions of others: men and women who worked harder than anyone.”
“I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“I've always said I'm not the most talented, but I work the hardest.”
“I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion.”
Source: The Good Wife of Bath
“I've always said that political capital doesn't gain interest. You have to spend it, and be willing to take the hit. You have to be willing to test your hypothesis and find out if your solution works, based on metrics and data. Blind adherence to tradition should not be the measure of success.”
Source: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
“I’ve always said there is a great deal of power in words, and that means names, too. A name you choose for yourself could tell you the story of what your destiny will be, and who you intend to become.”
Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute
“I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes”
Source: Daddy's Girl
“I've always seen hidden meanings in everything. Whenever I used to do those puzzles in children's magazines, the ones where you're supposed to find all the hidden pictures, I'd never find the right ones. I'd say I found the griffin, and the Wesselman steam engine, and the missing little finger of the mummy of Tut, and everyone would give me a strange look and say, All you're looking for is a yellow duck.
[…] work up to the voices of places you can only imagine. Ask where to find the griffin, and the Wesselman steam engine, and the little finger of Tut. I know they're out there, and usually in the strangest of places.
And if you find the yellow duck, let me know. That's the one I always miss.”
Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.”
Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I've always stressed the value of autonomy for intellectual and moral development. Autonomy provides us with a sphere of discretion which we all require.”
“I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“I've always thought if I could just work a little harder, be a little smarter, [my dad] might notice.... But every time I jump, he cuts me at the knees.”
Source: Business Casual
“I’ve always thought it is important to keep kids focused and fascinated by some kind of music. Listening and learning about it involves, and evolves several really important cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and spatial reasoning. Performing also creates confidence. Because I wasn’t a performer, and I was very much an introvert, I think I gravitated towards absorbing entertainment rather than being it.”
Source: Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers
“I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and there are always so many people in it. But I guess I'm grateful for all the noise and chaos. I don't know if I want to be alone in the quiet with my thoughts these days.”
Source: What I Didn't Say
“I've always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person--starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them--and I've always thought that every minute away from them would be hell--so looking at it that way, I guess I'm not in love with you.
[Letter to suitor, R. Beverley Corbin, Jr.
20 January 1947]”
“I’ve always thought of school as a rehearsal. Not the main event.”
Source: Wild Animus
“I've always thought that men are more romantic than woman.”
Source: The Wedding Wallah
“I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.”