I Quotes
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“I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it." "Oh yeah, when?" "I think it happened around the seventeenth year," Henry said.”
Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War
“i ate her scream
sucked into blackness
we smiled and kissed
chewing shards of glass”
Source: tiny bacon thoughts
“I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage. The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror. He smiled, sausage juice running down his chin. "Oh, don't worry - I cooked him first. I'm not a barbarian.”
Source: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”
“I ate in silence, listening to the rustle of his clothes being donned, trying to think of ice baths, of infected wounds, of toe fungus- anything but his naked body, so close... and the bed I was sitting on.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I ate like a horse when I was younger, and not very sensibly, though no one ever believes that.”
“I ate lunch with Keira today. Second day in a row,” I told him, then winced at how stupid that sounded.
Rider’s grin turned into a full smile, transforming his handsome face into the kind of masculine beauty that was like a punch to the chest. “That’s really good, Mallory.” His voice dropped as he reached over, curving his hand over my arm. There was a near electric rush from his touch. “I’m proud of you. For real.”
Giddiness surrounded my heart as I stared at his large hand, darker than my own. He knew how big that was, and I didn’t feel so idiotic. He got it. He got me. And that meant the entire universe to me.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“I ate mythology & dreamt'
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)”
“I ate one anchovy, and that is why I did not eat two anchovies.”
“I ate really well and I'm vegan. I breastfeed, so everyday I got more and more back to my prebaby shape, but knowing I was going to be filming [Wiches of East End] in six weeks was a nice little reminder.”
“I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.”
Source: I Still Believe
“I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.”
Source: The Cracked Mirror: Reflections of an Appalachian Son
“I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.”
“I ate the soft warm bread with butter and apricot jam on one slice and cheese on the other. I am not sure how settled my mind was, but the food settled nicely in my belly.”
Source: Recipes for Love and Murder
“I ate the very last food scraps,
starving for the light up above.
That was when I saw you new buds,
your stems reaching into the dark.
[Seeking Sanctuary]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”
“I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don't remember what I said last night.”
“I ate too much and masturbated too recently, you know? It's bad to like jerk off and run out the door, 'cause you run into somebody. "Oh, she knows..." You got to take some time alone to process the shame.”
“I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.”
“I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.”
“I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.”
“I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.”
“I attacked him, he healed me, then he took me hunting, I threatened him, and he took me home. Wow. That was like a date.”
Source: Hotblood
“I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.”
“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."”
“I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.”
“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and everlasting.
[Remark made near the end of his life]”
“I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty.
[Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]”
“I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).”
“I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement”
“I attempt to avoid allowing fear in, but it lingers when I’m fatigued and vulnerable, like an old companion.”
“I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.”
“I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.”
“I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.”
“I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.”
“I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in the same way, but to be honest, I don't care that much. It isn't like a basketball player is out on the court hoping that people like the game of basketball as the game goes on. If people don't see it, they don't see it. It is a fragile thing and most people recognize that and respect it. Even if for whatever reason, they don't like the painting.”
“I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.”
“I attempt to surf. Im not as good as anyone else in the water. Im more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!”
“I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.”
“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I attempted to be clear and straightforward in my approach to Dr Tate, deferring to his medical expertise and stating my desire merely to be helpful. Renee and Joan Frances, in turn, were clear and straightforward about their needs in a way that was new for them. Yet we were seen as manipulative multiple and puppet therapist. Renee had probably never been less manipulative in her life than when she was trying to reason with Dr. Tate.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.”
“I attempted to read and memorise the whole dictionary, because I know that my destiny is to guide a large number of people.”
“I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.”
“I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.”
“I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.”
“I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a government function, I talk about government related topics. If I attend a Railway's function I talk about railways, if water then water, if water bodies, then water bodies. My focus is on governance.”
“I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.”
Source: Merman: an autobiography
“I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.”
Source: The master architect: conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright
“I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.”