I Quotes
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“I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.”
“I asked him, "Can you breathe okay with my head on your chest like this?" His answer was "It's the only way I know how to breathe.”
“I asked him for it.
For the blood, for the rust,
for the sin.
I didn’t want the pearls other girls talked about,
or the fine marble of palaces,
or even the roses in the mouth of servants.
I wanted pomegranates—
I wanted darkness,
I wanted him.
So I grabbed my king and ran away
to a land of death,
where I reigned and people whispered
that I’d been dragged.
I’ll tell you I’ve changed. I’ll tell you,
the red on my lips isn’t wine.
I hope you’ve heard of horns,
but that isn’t half of it. Out of an entire kingdom
he kneels only to me,
calls me Queen, calls me Mercy.
Mama, Mama, I hope you get this.
Know the bed is warm and our hearts are cold,
know never have I been better
than when I am here.
Do not send flowers,
we’ll throw them in the river.
‘Flowers are for the dead’, ‘least that’s what
the mortals say.
I’ll come back when he bores me,
but Mama,
not today.”
“I asked him if he wanted to play music but he refused. He said that the only thing he wanted to hear was the pleasure of my moans.”
Source: Hard to Resist
“I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.”
“I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.”
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“I asked him not to hurt me. It seems to be what women say. And men. It did not stop him.”
Source: In the Cut
“I asked him then: 'What are you after?'
'To be in hell with you,' he said.”
Source: Final Meeting: Selected Poetry
“I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.”
Source: A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk
“I asked him to let go, but he was a god. He could control every emotion and even when I wanted, I couldn’t let go. He had everything, all of me, he possessed total control.”
“I asked him what he said, for there was such a mish-mash of Conversation around us that I could scarcely understand him - the frequenters of Taverns have Hearts of Curd and Souls of Milk Sop, but they have Mouths like Cannons which stink of Tobacco and their own foul Breath as they cry What News? What's a Clock? Methinks it's Cold to Day! Thus is it a Hospital For Fools”
Source: Hawksmoor
“I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.”
“I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.”
Source: Embroideries
“I asked him what it was like to live in a monastery and meditate for a year. He said it was a waste of time, that he never meditated, and that the older monks were interested only in feeling up boys, playing cards, and telling fortunes, that they were a dirty, lazy, superstitious lot.”
Source: The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
“I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.”
“I asked him, “Why can’t you hunt a bison in a herd? ” Dad replied, “It is pretty easy to hunt a lone bison and get ahead of him stalking it, finding its travel route, but in a herd, they group and face you, and it is dangerous if they come charging against you." At the last light, an abandoned bull was ruminating at the edge of the tributary. Papa took a 56-yard shot, which is pretty far. The arrow caught the bull's throat and slowed its pace, and the last shot was out of respect for the peaceful death to the heart.”
“I asked him why he’s so scared to commit and he said he’s not scared to commit, he’s just not in the mood to commit to me because he’s committed to himself, and I knew in that instant I wanted him more than I’ve ever wanted anything. I wanted to be with him, but I also wanted to be him, replace myself with him and find a girl like me who look at me like I looked at him when he said that.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“I asked him why there isn’t really a word or phrase in the Somali language to say thank you, at least one that is used in everyday life.
Somali people, he said, believe in the inherit dignity of every human being. If someone asks you for a cup of cold water, you will give it to them, no questions asked. You don’t need to be told thank you, because when you give the cup of water you are acknowledging that this person is a human, deserving of this cup of cold water. Why would you need to be told thank you? If you were thirsty, the other person would do the same for you.”
Source: Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
“I asked, I waited, I stayed... but I never got any answer. Just silence that said more than words ever could.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I asked if I could borrow Gilead's but she gave me a funny look. So funny I started laughing uncontrollably. When I couldn't stop myself I clamped my hand over my mouth and went outside. The thing about having a stress reaction is that even when you know you're having a stress reaction that knowledge doesn't seem to do you any good. I found a doorway across the road where a parked police sprinter van blocked the view from the rest of the street. I lent against the door and let myself slipped down until I was sitting with my back to it. I closed my eyes and focused on my breathing until the giggles stopped.”
Source: Lies Sleeping
“I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.”
“I asked if you was pleased.’
‘Course I’m pleased! You think I’d be mad if I wasn’t pleased?’
‘You don’t make a lick of sense,’ he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me.”
Source: I Shall be Near to You
“I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.”
“I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these armed ideological nuts wandering around loose. He said that for him, to "ice" someone means to reprimand them.”
“I asked Kara to record one good thing she did every day in her workout. Her journal reminded her that she had done the work, and deserved to toe-the-line with everyone else. Recorded consistently over time, a confidence journal can lead to a champion’s mindset.”
Source: Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You
“I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.”
“I asked Michael Jackson once. I said to him, 'How were you able to go from the Jackson Five to the biggest star in the world? What was your secret, Michael?' He said, 'Ricky, stay inspired. That's the hardest thing to do. If you can figure out a way to stay inspired, you can make it.'”
“I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.”
“I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself.
"Sometimes, in the mornings," he said.
"That's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands - whatever I can still move - and I mourn what I've lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'”
“I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.”
Source: Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years
“I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.”
“I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'”
“I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?”
Source: Game of Nightmares
“I asked my date what she wanted to drink. She said, 'Oh, I guess I'll have Champagne.' I said, 'Guess again.'”
“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”
“I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.”
“I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'”
“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves positioned atop the racial hierarchy.
He thought for a moment and then said, "Some of them will never give it up.”
Source: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet." I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.”
“I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.”
Source: Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
“I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.”
“I asked my heart, the meaning of Happiness.
I found my Soul, walking along its route long before my Mind had known.
Because Happiness simply tastes like Love in a bottle of galloping Moments, nimbly fleeting yet wonderfully etched in Time's bosom of Never-ending Smile.”
“I asked my interior designer to give me something appropriate for defiling virgins.”
Source: Three Daves
“I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you want." I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like "Stop moaning and write something."”
“I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.”
“I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.”
“I asked my mother why we couldn’t have books and she said, ‘The trouble with a book is that you never know what’s in it until it’s too late.'
I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.”
“I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."”