I Quotes
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“I was passive by nature. I had always been. Arguing felt unnatural and uncomfortable. I was always agreeing even when I didn’t really, instinctively looking for ways to forfeit power, to become more dependent, to be taken care of. I realized how intensely Icecap reminded me of Jacob. They were similar, both diligent and harsh in their judgments—and my big brother’s sureness had always comforted me.
But as I ran on sore legs to keep up with Icecap, my tendency toward silence stressed me.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.”
“I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.”
“I was peculiarly moved by the angelic life growing on the ground. I have no idea what sorts of flowers grow there in profusion -- I don’t know their names. But I was so moved that I sat down, trying to flatten as few grasses and plants as possible with my clumsy backside... This brought my head quite close to the silent, joyful, exuberant, celestial children of heaven. They are so humble, so quiet, and they do not mind if you observe them, if you think they are beautiful... Nor do they mind if you don’t look at all -- they just stand there together all by themselves in the huge stretch of woods and grow and bloom just the same, peacefully, joyfully, and silently. I am absolutely sure that they know nothing of the swinish and filthy behaviour of people in their dirty stinking houses -- they know only about heaven.”
Source: M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work. With a Fully Illustrated Catalogue
“I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.”
“I was perfect... and then I wasn't.”
Source: Cracked Up to Be
“I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place”
“I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.”
Source: The Book of Illusions
“I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.”
Source: Autobiography
“I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.”
“I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.”
Source: Life Itself: A Memoir
“I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.”
“I was performing from the age of three.”
“I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga.”
“I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.”
“I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.”
“I was performing with the Pussycat Dolls when I was approached by a company who wanted to do a workout series. I hired the creator of the Dolls, and as a team we went in and rehearsed and put together this series.”
“i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I was perhaps moreover a little the dupe of that illusion of lovers that the beloved object must, somehow, respond, that an extremity of love not only merits but compels some return.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.”
“I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.”
“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.”
“I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.”
Source: Black Boy
“I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.”
“I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.”
Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.”
“I was petrified of making a mistake—head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.”
Source: The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange
“I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.”
“I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.”
“I was physically abused and I retaliated.”
“I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.”
“I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.”
“I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect.”
“I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.”
“I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.”
“I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?”
Source: Collected Poems: 1974-2004
“I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock ’n’ roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it.”
“I was pissed that I couldn’t go out and celebrate like someone turning twenty-one typically would, so I wore black hair to show my family just how pissed off I was.”
Source: What's Left of Me
“I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!”
“I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.”
“I was planning on giving them the sun and stars as well. It's kind of a package deal; therefore, the moon is for lovers. The stars are for partners. The sun ... for best friends.”
Source: The Consequence of Revenge
“I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.”
“I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.”
“I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.”
Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
“I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.”
“I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.”
“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”
“I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.”
“I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.”