I Quotes
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“I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.”
“I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.”
“I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.”
“I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.”
“I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.”
Source: Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!”
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“I was the show.
Was I afraid?
Yes.
Could I run?
Not anymore.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.”
“I was the silent and ever present figure in your life...but you.” I kissed the back of her hand softly and closed my eyes. "You've always been the meaning of mine.”
Source: Severance
“I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.”
“I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .”
“I was the sort of beautiful that women knew they could never truly emulate. Men knew they would never even get close to a woman like me.
Ruby was the elegant, aloof sort of beauty. Ruby was cool. Ruby was chic.
But Celia was the sort of beautiful that felt as if you could hold it in your hands, like if you played your cards right, you might just get to marry a girl like Celia St. James.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.”
Source: The Round House: A Novel
“I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.”
“I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.”
“I was the stardust. He was the moonshine. The thing I need to sleep at night.”
“I was the strongest during my career, and that helped me a lot, definitely in the beginning, when I needed to race against riders who were much older than me and had the power and the experience. I could beat them with my technique. At a certain moment I not only had the technique but then the power came and the experience, and then you are on the best level that you ever can reach. But then the explosivity starts to go down, you're more afraid, and the technique goes down a bit. But it's OK, because it never goes completely down.”
“I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would not have to undergo them for herself. But, how are our certainties forged, except by the sweat and tears of other people? If your parents don't teach you how to live; you learn it from books; and clever people watch you learn from your mistakes.”
“I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.”
“I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
“I was the told it's the blackest clouds you want to keep an eye on.”
Source: The Snow Hare
“I was the told it's the blackest clouds you want to keep an eye on. Behind these clouds lie the gypsies sacks. It's said these sacks contain the world's sorrow histories.”
Source: The Snow Hare
“I was the told it's the blackest clouds you want to keep an eye on. Behind these clouds lie the gypsies sacks. It's said these sacks contain the world's sorrowful histories.”
Source: The Snow Hare
“I was the told it's the blackest clouds you want to keep an eye on. Behind these clouds lie the gypsies sacks. It's said these sacks contain the world's sorrowful histories. That's why it takes such a wind to drag them along.”
Source: The Snow Hare
“I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.”
“I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.”
“I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.”
“I was the type of person who was the question-asker. And not just genuine questions, I would ask a question so the author would know how much I knew about them. Once I went to a Tobias Wolff reading. I knew he was teaching at Syracuse at that time. And so, I remember asking him how he liked Syracuse. People do that to me now and it's okay. There is rarely a time when I just have had enough.”
“I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.”
“I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.”
“I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.”
“I was the victim of both social orders: of Apollo’s waxing patriarchy, & of Clytemnestra’s last spasms of outraged matriarchy. My father Priam probably would have said: that I had asked for it. That no society could be expected to tolerate an individual who insisted on telling the truth.”
Source: The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy
“I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.”
“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“I was the world in which I walked.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.”
“I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!”
“I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.”
Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy
“I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.”
“I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.”
“I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.”
“I was the worst, most sickly kid of all - 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.”
“I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.”
“I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.”
“I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.”
“I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.”
“I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.”