I Quotes
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“I was happy as a child that's why I'm luckier than you.”
“I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money.”
“I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.”
“I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.”
“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.”
Source: The Passion
“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.”
Source: The Passion
“I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift of an illusion. We all layer them over our rememberances; the filters through which we want to see our lives.”
“I was happy.
I was scared.
I was hopeful.
I was excited.
And all of those emotions were real.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.”
“I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.”
“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”
“I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.”
Source: Daniel Boone: His Own Story
“I was happy like I always was when existence was reduced to completing a single task or series of tasks. When I ceased to be a mind in charge of a body and became just the body itself.”
Source: The Island of Last Things
“I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.”
“I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.”
“I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.”
“I was happy that the room would revert to me. In my/his room, it would be easier to remember our nights.
No, better keep my current room. Then, at least, I could pretend he was still in his, and if he wasn't there, that he was still out as he so frequently used to be on those nights when I counted the minutes, the hours, the sounds.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that.”
“I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.”
“I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.”
“I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing. I missed her first words. I missed her first steps. I'd leave work before she woke up and got home after she was asleep and didn't really know her. So it was important for that reason to reintroduce myself to the family after all of that hard work.”
“I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.”
“I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.”
“I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.”
“I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.”
“I was happy working for £6 an hour.”
“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.”
“I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.”
“I was harassed out of Denver International Airport by police officers when I was freely walking out to the exit.”
“I was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I wanted him to like me. But now he knew - that I was hard. and maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as much as I liked the fact that he wasn't hard.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”
“I WAS HARDWORKING,
WITH FRIENDS NETWORKING,
LIFE WAS SMIRKING,
PROBLEMS WERE LURKING,
SUDDENLY THINGS CHANGED JERKING.”
“I was harmless; I am still harmless - That's why I survive from victimization.”
“I was harmless; I am still harmless - That's why I survive victimization.”
“I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]”
“I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.”
Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.”
“I was haunted by a painful desire for her, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.”
Source: Lemon Twist
“I was haunted by a painful desire for you, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.”
Source: Lemon Twist
“I was haunted by the stereotype of the mother whose love is 'unconditional'; and by the visual literary images of motherhood as a single-minded identity. If I knew parts of myself existed that would never cohere to those images, weren't those parts then abnormal, monstrous?”
Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.”
“I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.”
Source: Afterlife
“I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.”
“I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?”
“I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.”
“I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.”