I Quotes
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“I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.”
“I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?”
“I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.”
“I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.”
“I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.”
“I was thinking over this story, just lying in my bed, smoking a stupid cigarette—still pretending to, at least—when it happened. I swear it did. Jessica moved in my bed and I glanced at her and noticed for the first time how pretty her eyelashes were, and how her jet-black eyebrows seemed to sleep on her face. And I swear to God I heard what the hell Moeller talked about. I swear. It happened just like he said it did. One second, I was smoking cigarettes, thinking about something stupid—and the next, I knew I was going to stop all of the stupid-think and marry this girl.”
Source: The Hack
“I was thinking over this story, just lying in my bed, smoking a stupid cigarette—still pretending to, at least—when it happened. I swear it did. Jessica moved in my bed and I glanced at her and noticed for the first time how pretty her eyelashes were, and how her jet-black eyebrows seemed to sleep on her face. And I swear to God I heard what the hell Moeller talked about. I swear. It happened just like he said it did. One second, I was smoking cigarettes, thinking about something stupid—and thee next, I knew I was going to stop all of the stupid-think and marry this girl.”
Source: The Hack
“I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.”
“I was thinking,' said Crusher dreamily [...] 'about LANGUAGE and how in English two negatives make a positive, but in spriteish, a double negative is still a negative. However there is NO language in which two positives make a negative ...'
'Yeah right, like THAT'S the problem,' said Xar, sarcastically. 'I hadn't thought of that!' said Crusher in gentle surprise [...]. 'You're correct, Car. "Yeah, right" IS a statement in English where two positives make a negative...”
Source: Twice Magic
“I was thinking,' she said. 'About those wives of yours.'
'What about them?'
'Mrs. Llewellyn must be the fourth.'
'Fifth. You're overlooking Bernadine Friganza.'
'It seems rather a lot.'
'That's Hollywood. You sort of drift into it. There's nothing much to do after office hours, so you go out and get married.”
“I was thinking that everything had changed in an instant, changed in a way that neither he nor I might mind.”
Source: In the Cut
“I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.”
“I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.”
Source: Certain Smile
“I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.”
“I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same”
Source: Ghost Flower
“I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.”
“I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.”
“I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.”
Source: Lust for Life
“I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.”
Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel
“I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.”
Source: The Tunnel of Love: A Novel
“I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!”
“I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.”
“I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.”
Source: Warbreaker
“I was thinking that you're right about vaginas not being remotely related to flowers. They don't smell the same or feel the same, and they're not pretty in any way that would make you want to put them in a vase in your kitchen." ...
"I'm not saying they can't be in the flower family, just that they can't be a lily or a daffodil. If they had to be a flower ... then they'd be an anomaly-type flower, the badass ones that eat flies."
"Venus fly traps!"
"Exactly”
“I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful -" "Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," said Harry quietly. "It saved my life last June." Smith opened his mouth stupidly. The rest of the room was very quiet. "But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave.”
“I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.”
“I was thinking: to write and being a writer are two kind of diferrences things.
To write is a please.
Being a writer is about taking it as a job, as a consequency, as a responsibility. And being a writer is about ENDLESSLY passion.
If you don’t like it, just don’t do it.
If you can’t do it, just take it as a please.”
“I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.”
“I was thinking we could get a picture of you holding a pitchfork or something. Maybe a big wooden cross? Sound good?"(Brian)
She stared at him. He lifted his hands and leaned back in his seat, as if he was afraid she might start spitting on him. "Hey, only joking."
"Very funny."
"Oh, I do love jokes." Greyson Dante stood by her side.
"Hello, Mr. Dante. I'm afraid this is a private conversation, so you will, of course, be going now."
His grin widened. Was there no way to insult the man?”
Source: Personal Demons
“I was thinking..."
"We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker”
Source: Unlimited
“I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.”
Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase
“I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.”
“I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.”
“I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.”
Source: I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god
“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”
Source: My Ántonia
“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”
Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches
“I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”
Source: Murder in our midst
“I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.”
“I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.”
“I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.”
“I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?”
“I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“I was thinning the hellebore when I saw a woman in an oversize suit jacket and a fedora trying to throw a rope into a window two stories high to rescue her friend in the dark and rain. I've traveled all over the world and I've seen many things, but I've never seen anything like that. And then the alarm went off and she didn't run. She didn't give up. She refused to leave her friend and tried to scale a sheer brick wall with her bare hands. I didn't know love and loyalty like that existed. I only knew what it meant to be alone. I had to meet her."
"We didn't meet," I said. "You grabbed me and dragged me into the bushes."
"That's what you do when you find the love of your life," he said.
"You love me?"
His voice was soft as he turned away. "I think I loved you from the moment you threw that rope.”
Source: To Have and to Heist
“I was thirty-five and I’d thought I was playing political poker and it turned out I’d been playing in some other game I didn’t even know about. Like I’d been holding a hand of kings and then the people around the table started putting down more kings, a king with a squid’s face, a naked king with goat’s horns holding up a bough of holly. A Russian king with an insect’s voice.”
Source: Crooked
“I was thirty-one at this point. I was deep in the grips of Hollywood conditioning. The thing is, I was always playing roles that were younger, at least five years younger, which amplified my twisted perception of aging. You have done something wrong! You have lived! You start feeling crazier with each birthday that passes.”
Source: Brave
“I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
Source: My Life in France
“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.”
“I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.”
“I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.”