I Quotes
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“I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.”
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
Source: Exit Strategy
“I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.”
“I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.”
“I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous.”
“I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.”
“I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.”
“I was having my teens in my 30s.”
“I was having one of those experiences where you're in a place, whether it's a job interview for a position you don't want with a company you don't even trust or a class you don't want to take, and you're sitting there wondering, What am I doing here? Like a part of you has split off from yourself and occasionally drops in and asks, Can we leave now?”
“I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.”
“I was having pretty bad anxiety attacks and stuff, and I think a lot of it had to do with my physical environment. Deep down I've always had a pretty strong connection with nature, but I've suppressed it for so long while living in the city. I think it caught up to me. I started really bugging out and needing wide-open space. So it was that simple. That and social anxiety. I felt like I was existing too much in nightlife.”
“I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.”
“I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.”
“I was having sex with everything that moved”
“I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.”
“I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company. He asked me if I'd written anything, and I said yes. Then he said 'why don't you just shoot it'? And I thought, "duh!" Best advice I ever got.”
“I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.”
“I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”
“I was hazy with wine, hazy with Nick. I nestled into my seat and marveled at his endlessness, only inches away, his infinite capacity to shelter me.”
Source: A Hundred Summers
“I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.”
“I was head over heels, now I just see my heel in your head”
“I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel
“I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”
Source: Chronicles
“I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.”
“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”
Source: This Lullaby
“I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.”
“I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.”
“I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.”
“I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.”
“I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.”
“I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.”
“I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).”
“I was held together by one thread that was black and frayed, and the end of it was tied to Maggie. She had unwittingly pulled on it, loosening the already loose knitting until I was nothing more than a pile of tangled string, completely unraveled.”
Source: The Silent Cries of a Magpie
“I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.”
“I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.”
“I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.”
“I was helpless to stop it, and I knew it.”
Source: Shantaram
“I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.”
“I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?”
Source: Consent
“I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that.”
“I was here at Spurs as a kid, too, and I cleaned David Ginola and David Howells boots. I got a nice tip of £60 from each of them at Christmas. Howells was quick to give me this but I had to ask Les Ferdinand to explain to Ginola about our boot etiquette and the tradition of tipping at Christmas. Everyone wanted to clean Les Ferdinand s boots because he was the best tipper. He gave out £100 one year.”
“I was here first,” she seethed, “you unbelievably annoying man—”
His arms opened to receive her and she crashed into his wide, solid chest, and then they were kissing.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.”
Source: Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
“I was here on earth because I chose to be.”
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“I was here, pet. I was always here. Even if you told me you needed me just for an hour, for this, I would have been there." Marcus spoke gruffly into his hair, holding him tighter. "Why is it so fucking hard for you to believe I love you?”
Source: Rough Canvas
“I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for.”
“I was hers. She was mine. My body was her chariot, and she drove it into the sun. Her body was my river, and I became the sea.”
Source: Shantaram