I Quotes
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“I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack”
“I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.”
“I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I stepped out completely on faith. But when I engaged with an audience for the first time, I was right at home. I felt safe, and all of my senses worked together with a certain elegance. I understood flow in the most profound way. I knew then that I had to follow my heart.”
“I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.”
“I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?”
“I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.”
“I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way”
Source: Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984
“I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.”
Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
“I was running around with two guns on my waist like I was Larry Fishburne or something. I wasn't making no money, I was just running around with two guns like Larry Fishburne.”
“I was running, as fast as I could,
carrying you, Carnation,
shaking and scared ...
She was there, waiting for me.
Standing surrounded by a meadow of lavender,
her arms opened wide for me
to run into and cry and cry ...”
Source: Fleur of Yesterday
“I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.”
“I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.”
Source: Dreamland
“I was running in circles, I hurt myself, just to find my purpose. Everything was so worthless, I didn't deserve this, but to me you were perfect.”
“I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.”
“I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or worse, it's not a wish-fulfillment movie. It's got a kind of happy ending, but it's not like I forgot to put on the "Ten years later," and they've got four kids and a dog. Those guys are not together today. It always was leading up to the moment of "Oh, I have my first girlfriend." Credits.”
“I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.”
“I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.”
“I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?”
“I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.”
“I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll probably never happen.”
“I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot.”
“I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?”
Source: Alfred Stieglitz
“I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.”
“I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get.”
“I was saddened at the loss of my invisible friend, as I had spent so much time with them.”
“I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.”
“I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.”
Source: What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era
“I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.”
“I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I was sane till love conspired with my mind, now all I think about is you.”
Source: These Things
“I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.”
“I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.”
“I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.”
Source: Ask the Dust
“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.”
Source: Fall Higher
“I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.”
“I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.”
“I was saying on the air: "Victorino used the Twitter and he sent a twit to tell the fans he was coming." Well, the city went hysterical. The sky nearly fell down from laughter. I always thought that if you are going to use Twitter, it's going to be a twit. Why would it be a tweet?”
“I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.”
“I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.”
“I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.”
“I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.”
Source: Yes Man
“I was scarcely aware of the angry hands scratching and pulling at me from all directions. Instead, I closed my eyes and wished silently for death to free me.”
Source: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at the entrance of Le Murate by parents whose aspirations for their daughters did not include marriage. Our paths to the convent were varied, but no matter. We all wound up in the same habit.”
Source: Paint
“I was scared and nearly choking when I bravely asked, ‘Are you a pros-ti-tute?’ I actually said it like that. I knew I was asking a question that might get me beaten up, and I had to force the three syllables to stumble off my tongue and bounce around innocently on the stainless-steel draining board while I waited for her reply.”
Source: Alice in Worcestershire
“I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.”
“I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.”
“I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.”
“I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.”
“I was scared. I was scared because I didn't realize how much I loved him until that moment. How much I couldn't live without him now. He was... my whole world now. I'd go anywhere. I'd do anything for him.”
Source: Children of Vice