I Quotes
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“I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.”
“I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.”
“I asked the Lord our God why we suffer. He didn't answer. He couldn't speak through the tears.”
Source: Heroes in Crisis
“I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.”
“I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.”
“I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.”
“I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.”
Source: Chicago Poems
“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“I asked the trees; what did you think about the drier seasons we have been getting lately and now this really beautiful wet one?
“We don’t think in terms of wet and dry, we take what we get when we get it, we enjoy it all and respond accordingly, if we get less rain we draw in less moisture and put on less growth and stop the growth earlier in the year. We adapt, like a boat, flowing along with the flow of the stream, we don’t go against the stream by resisting what is. What is is, and as such it is beautiful, the whole of life is beautiful and we make the most of what we get when we get it. We don’t waste time on thinking about what might have been. All that we get, is what we want. Why would we desire what we didn’t get, that is wasted energy?”
Source: The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words
“I asked the trees why it would be that I am so attracted to flowers in particular?
“Flowers carry the love of God and all things in God’s Universe, pure, essential, satisfying love on all levels. Unconditional love and profuse joy for all things, is what flowers display for us. So, it is no wonder that the more sensitive among us are very much drawn to their beauty and grace.”
Source: The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words
“I asked the universe for serendipity and you walked through my door.”
“I asked the universe to teach me how to love and I was sent you.
I begged life for guidance and the light appeared as you lead.
I bargained with the creator to fix my broken parts and you gave me another chance without taking a new perception of me.
I pleaded with source to humble my ego and I heard raw pain in your 1st verbal warning, after my self-destruction recoiled.
I cried out to the void asking for genuine love & protection and you avoided my offering of me.
I demanded God to reassure me of my worth and you never looked back or returned to me.”
“I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'”
“I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.”
Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?”
“I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.”
“I asked Thee to protect him. To look after him. That's all I asked for. But all Thou carest for is the soul. And what I want from him is the body. Naked and warmed by love, simmering with desire, massaging the trembling of my arms and breasts. My transparent body suspended by his. My slender frame supported by and lost in his strength. What am I to do with my lips now when I don't have his mouth to occupy them? What am I to do with my aching lips?”
Source: Pedro Páramo
“I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.”
“I asked them telepathically.
Christy confessed. When I stared, I could see a fine tremor go through her.
Matthew added.”
Source: Pursuit into Darkness
“I asked them to imagine what it would be like if we lived in a world where, no matter how deeply we dug, we kept finding traces of an earlier era of the world. I asked them to imagine being confronted with proof of a past extending so far back that the numbers lost all meaning: a hundred thousand years, a million years, ten million years. Then I asked, wouldn’t they feel lost, like a castaway adrift on an ocean of time? The only sane response would be despair. I told them that we are not so adrift. We have dropped an anchor and struck bottom; we can be certain that the shoreline is close by, even if we can’t see it. We know that you made this universe with a purpose in mind; we know that a harbor awaits. I told them that our means of navigation is scientific inquiry. And, I said, this is why I am a scientist: because I wish to discover your purpose for us, Lord.”
Source: Omphalos
“I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."”
“I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.”
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“I asked this Universe
Please return my dues
The Universe responded, first:
Kindly settle my dues
Karmic debts neutralised... Get #Mickeymized!”
“I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".”
“I asked Troit, ‘What was it about the gang leaders that made you want to be more like them?’
Troit answered,
‘To be truthful, I used to feel good in their presence. I used to feel wanted in their presence. I used to feel appreciated in their presence. In their presence, you can sit down and talk and you can feel that they appreciate you. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison in The Bahamas”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“I asked Tyson Chandler who has to customize everything because he's 7-foot-1. He's said, always call a designer. You want to wear certain stuff but people don't make it.”
“I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?"
"What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals.”
Source: Biting Bad
“I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'”
“I asked, “When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area?
Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly,
Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don’t know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could’ve walk through Strachan’s Corner, sit down and felt at home, and their parents also accepted me.
I came to the conclusion; these kids just need someone to show them some attention. They just wanted to belong, that was what a lot of them were looking for. So I said to myself, if I could assist them I would, and that was what I did. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“I asked why all us kids had saints’ names, my father had said, “Because life throws so much at us. We want you to remember to be kind, patient, and tolerant. To have empathy for other people, care about them. And to have that extra help, your own saint backing you.”
“But we don’t always go to church,” I’d pointed out.
“Caring about people doesn’t just take place there. It’s how you act out in the world, when no one is looking, where it really counts.”
Source: Pretend She's Here
“I asked why her Jeffrey was seeing a man in a dress shop. Perhaps he thought it was time his mother wore a dress was my first thought, Lil. Gertie said that was the job he did. Then the penny dropped. I asked her if Jeffrey was homosexual. I only whispered the word, Lil, I didn't shout it out loud. She said he was gay. She wants to take a closer look at her Jeffrey. He may, or may not, be homosexual, but there's nothing gay about him. He's as miserable as sin.”
Source: The Gin Queens
“I asked XMN if perhaps this is not the best way to spend one's time. I asked if it might be a symptom of a much deeper personal problem that he has failed to address. He thinks for a moment. "Yeah I'm sure that's part of it. Then again, I don't know if the problems I have can ever be fixed. I don't know how you go about being reborn into a family that loves you. I think I'm damaged permanently. And if that's the case, everyone else deserves the same fate.”
Source: The Postmortal
“I asked you here today because the police department asked me to assess your mental health."
I huffed and rolled my eyes. "Already? Seriously? It's been a week." I am fucking sunshine.”
Source: Nearly Mended
“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
Source: The Rosie Project: A Novel
“I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?"
"Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey."
I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is..."
"Love, too," he said.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.”
“I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”
Source: Every You, Every Me
“I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.”
Source: The Poems, 1951-1967
“I asked Zdeněk if there was something he wanted to tell me. But he didn't need to tell me anything, it was enough to have seen me and confirm that I was in the world, and to let me know that he missed me, just as I missed him.”
“I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."”
“I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton's run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn't win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society.”
“I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.”
Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)
“I aspire to be a poet at heart, young when old, and drunk with longing.”
“I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.”
“I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.”
“I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.”
“I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.”
“I aspire to be useful.”