I Quotes
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“I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.”
“I walked until the water lapped against my chest, and then I kept walking until it kissed the underside of my jaw. I was surprised how cold it was. I closed my eyes and ducked beneath the surface. Thee was the wind and the clouds and the pure pool and the boy beneath its unsettled surface, and the blood, the boy's and monster's, defiling the pool.”
Source: The Isle of Blood
“I walked up to an old, old monk and asked him, 'What is the audacity of humility?' The man had never met me before, but do you know what his answer was? 'To be the first to say "I love you.”
Source: Tales of a Magic Monastery
“I walked up to Griz and poked him in the chest. "Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though some might seek to make it appear otherwise, I am not a bride to be bartered away to another kingdom, not a prize of war, not a mouthpiece for your Komizar. I am not a chip in a card game to be mindlessly tossed into the center of the pot, nor one to be kept in the tight fist of a greedy opponent. I am a player seated at the table alongside everyone else, and from this day forward, I will play my own hand as I see fit. Do you understand me? Because the consequences could be ugly if someone thought otherwise.”
Source: The Heart of Betrayal
“I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it through town. They were still clear cutting the mountains and cutting the coal from the ground. Then I heard my mother calling and it was like I was a child again.”
Source: Hill William
“I walked up to you.
I knocked on your door.
There wasn't other way to go.
Then when you have revealed yourself.
I found nothing there
Your eyes have misled me.”
Source: Not Just Yet. Egypt 2011: News - Incidents - Causes
“I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive tree. He did not move as we approached, but I fell that he was watching us. As soon as we had passed I heard a scamper. Wilson, like a hunted animal, had made for safely. That was the last I ever saw of him.
He died last year. He had endured that life for six years. He was found one morning on the mountainside lying quite peacefully as though he had died in his sleep. From where he lay he had been able to see those two great rocks called the Faraglioni which stand out of the sea. It was full moon and he must have gone to see them by moonlight. Perhaps he died of the beauty of that sight...
---The Lotus Eater”
“I walked with nowhere particular to go, and nowhere I had to be.”
Source: Still Me
“I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, ‘Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“I wan't sure what he saw in me, but I was glad he saw something.”
Source: A Boy Worth Knowing
“I wan't what's comming to me. The world... and everything in it.”
“I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.”
“I wander back out, and find Patrick doing the unthinkable. He is cooking. There are two placemats on the island, napkins and forks. He has found a dish of leftover pasta I made last night, linguine with chickpeas, pancetta, and toasted breadcrumbs, with torn basil leaves and lemon zest. He's put together a frittata, which he has cooked on one side, and is deftly flipping it over to cook the other side. On another burner, some of my marinara that I put up last summer simmers in a small saucepan. A pile of shaved Parmesan is on the cutting board, two plates sit at his elbow.”
Source: Off the Menu
“I wander back to class along Zhengsu Lu in the afternoon, my floral-print umbrella in one hand, an ice cream in the other. The air has that pre-lightning feel. It is June.”
“I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.”
Source: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
“I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.”
“I wander from mind to mind.”
“I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”
Source: Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith
“I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.”
“I wandered around not knowing what I was doing in The Great Waldo Pepper and feeling pretty lost, and they rightly cut my part down. I don't think I was in very good emotional shape. I think I was a bit of a mess. I'd done about six movies back-to-back, and was in a state of complete exhaustion.”
“I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.”
“I wandered down the stairs, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive and young on a beautiful day;”
Source: The Secret History
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy
“I wandered for ever about these lovely solitudes, gathering flower after flower”
Source: Mathilda
“I wandered for ever about these lovely solitudes, gathering flower after flower . . . singing as I might the wild melodies of the country, or occupied by pleasant day dreams.”
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
Source: I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
“I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.”
“I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.”
Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“I wandered over to the adobe birthplace of Ignacio Seguin Zaragoza, whose father was posted at the garrison in the early 1800s. Zaragoza went on to become a national hero in Mexico, leading a reformist revolt against Santa Anna and defeat- ing an invading French force on May 5, 1862, the date celebrated as Cinco de Mayo.
While exploring the birthplace, I met Alberto Perez, a history and so- cial studies teacher in the Dallas area who was visiting with his family. When I confessed my ignorance of Zaragoza, he smiled and said, "You're not alone. A lot of Texans don't know him, either, or even that Mexico had its own fight for independence."
The son of Mexican immigrants, Perez had taught at a predominantly Hispanic school in Dallas named for Zaragoza. Even there, he'd found it hard to bring nuance to students' understanding of Mexico and Texas in the nineteenth century.
"The word 'revolution' slants it from the start," he said. "It makes kids think of the American Revolution and throwing off oppression."
Perez tried to balance this with a broader, Mexican perspective. Anglos had been invited to settle Texas and were granted rights, citizenship, and considerable latitude in their adherence to distant authority. Mexico's aboli- tion of slavery, for instance, had little force on its northeastern frontier, where Southerners needed only to produce a "contract" that technically la- beled their human chattel as indentured servants.
"Then the Anglos basically decided, 'We don't like your rules,"" Perez said. "This is our country now.”
Source: Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
“I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.”
“I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.”
Source: White Oleander
“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”
Source: Three Comrades: A Novel
“I wanna ask an astronaut,
Does it matter or not
These fights for the sake of love,
from the distance above”
Source: Ethereal
“I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!”
“I wanna be a nice guy.”
“I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.”
“I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.”
“I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.”
“I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.”
“I wanna be even more like the people I love
~Toga”
Source: My Hero Academia - League of Villains: Undercover
“I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.”
“I wanna be great. I'm going to be great. There's no doubt about
it.”
“I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.”
“I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.”
“I wanna be inside your heaven Take me to the place you cry from Where the storm blows your way I wanna be the earth that holds you Every bit of air you're breathin' in A soothin' wind I wanna be inside your heaven”
“I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.”
“I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.”
“I wanna be myself (I don’t care)
Yeah, I gotta be myself (Just don’t care)
And now that your weight’s come off my shoulders
I realize that I can fly
I needed to find me (Now I know)
The key was inside of me all along
I’m listening to my heart, let it guide me
I feel the light, I feel the light”