I Quotes
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“I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“I was too absorbed to be responsive”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“I was too awestruck to speak. Vines of bright pink flowers danced over a wrought-iron arbor. I recognized them immediately as the very same variety, bougainvillea, that grew in Greenhouse No. 4 at the New York Botanical Garden. Just beyond, two potted trees stood at attention- a lemon, its shiny yellow globes glistening in the sunlight, and what looked like an orange, studded with the tiniest fruit I'd ever seen.
"What is this?" I asked, fascinated.
"A kumquat," she said. "Lady Anna used to pick them for the children." She reached out to pluck one of the tiny oranges from the tree. "Here, try for yourself."
I held it in my hand, admiring its smooth, shiny skin.
I sank my teeth into the flesh of the fruit. Its thin skin disintegrated in my mouth, releasing a burst of sweet and sour that made my eyes shoot open and a smile spread across my face. "Oh, my," I said. "I've never had anything like it."
Mrs. Dilloway nodded. "You should try the clementines, then. They're Persian."
I walked a few paces further, admiring the potted orchids- at least a hundred specimens, so exquisite they looked like Southern belles in hoop skirts. On the far wall were variegated ferns, bleeding hearts, and a lilac tree I could smell from the other end of the room.”
Source: The Last Camellia
“I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.”
“I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.”
Source: Memoirs
“I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.”
Source: River Marked
“I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.”
“I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap - and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.”
Source: Hollow City
“I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.”
“I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
Source: The Magus
“I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer”
“I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."”
“I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.”
Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)
“I was too important to go to Vietnam.”
“I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.”
“I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!”
“I was too lazy to work and too nervous to steal.”
“I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.”
Source: Letters of John Keats
“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”
“I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.”
“I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with”
“I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.”
“I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.”
“I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.”
“I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.”
“I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.”
“I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable--most folks where we've lived our whole lives don't trust too much intelligence in a woman. There is also the problem of my eyes--they don't hide anything. If I don't care for a person, my eyes make it plain. I don't care for most. Folks are generally comfortable with the small lies they tell each other. They don't know what to do with someone like me, who mostly doesn't bother with small lies.”
Source: Difficult Women
“I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.”
“I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.”
“I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.”
Source: The Enormous Room
“I was too weak to defend, so I attacked”
“I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.”
“I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.”
“I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.”
“I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.”
Source: Unteachable
“I was too young to know how to love her.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.”
“I was too young to realize that my brain and thoughts could make me just as ill as an upset stomach could.”
“I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.”
“I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.”
“I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.”
Source: The Stranger
“I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!”
“I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together.”
Source: The Deepest Well
“I was torn between wanting him to get the best kind of education he could, and wanting to keep him all for myself.”
Source: Royals
“I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.”