I Quotes
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“I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.”
“I basically raised myself.”
“I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.”
“I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.”
“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.
When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”
“I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.”
“I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.”
“I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.”
“I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.”
“I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.”
“I basically was a precocious little kid.”
“I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.”
“I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.”
“I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.”
“I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.”
“I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”
Source: The night world and the word night: poems
“I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums”
“I bathe in statistics.”
“I bathe in your absence
and arise
dripping with loneliness.”
Source: Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration
“I bathed myself in silence, wrapped warmly in the comfort of the quiet. Yes, the stillness accepts us as we are.”
“I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!”
“I battle for meat, if I don't win, I don't eat.”
“I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.”
“I battled my feelings of inferiority bravely, picking out a guest and imagining him floating in the air at the end of a line I held in my hand, with his stiff-legged trousers, his checked vest, and his yellow tie, propelled this way or that with a flick of my hand. It was the first time I had wielded my imagination as a weapon of defense, and nothing ever turned out to be more beneficial to me in this life.”
Source: The Kites
“I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.”
“I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.”
Source: Ender's Game
“I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.”
“I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist”
“I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs”
“I be the queen of the city, like what's up with me.”
“I beam at her. See, Mum. See. After all this, after all these mad moments, after Lyle, after Slim, after you getting put away, it's still the same old me. Nothing changes, Mum. Nothing changes me. Nothing changes you. I love you more, Mum. You think I love you less but I love you more because of it all. I love you. See. See that on my face.”
Source: Boy Swallows Universe
“I bear a burden that might well try
Men that do all by rule,
And what can I
That am a wandering-witted fool
But pray to God that He ease
My great responsibilities?”
Source: Later Poems
“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“I bear a charmed life.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.”
“I bear a little more than I can bear.”
Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie
“I bear it to be true that anyone can easily become a genius if you are ready to pay the price.”
“I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“I bear my humble witness to you that the great God of heaven will open doors and means in a way we never would have supposed, to help all those who truly want a years supply...All we have to do is to decide, commit to it, and then keep the commitment. Miracles will take place.”
“I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and the streets like clear glass and the songs of seraphs and the shouts of the redeemed, one could very well give all these up, counting them as a drop in a bucket, if we might forever live in fellowship and communion with Jesus.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847
“I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.”
“I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.”
Source: Lifting the Shadow of War
“I bear testimony of our Heavenly Father, the Father of our spirits; of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Savior; and of the Holy Ghost, who is the means through which we receive divine guidance. I bear testimony that we can personally receive inspiration.”
“I bear the Russian man no ill. A Stanislav has as much right to walk God's earth as does a Stanley.”
Source: The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales
“I bear the weight of countless generations. Those who came before me and I will carry the fruit of the generations who will come after; I am life; I am death; I am the reckoning itself.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
“I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.”
“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were not here? Who, what, how could I be, if I were not me, if this outward appearance that is me did not encase me, separating my consciousness from that of others who are not me? An organism—a blind, rash, pitiful eruption of the insistent assertion of the will. Far better, really, if that will were to drift free in a night without time or space, than to languish in a prison cell lit only by the flickering, uncertain flame of the intellect.”
Source: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.”