I Quotes
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“I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.”
“I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.”
“I was transfixed by the way her internal mother had simply arrived and begun to tell her story in the sand.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“I was trapped. The day would be hell. I would suffer. I felt I might not survive. I needed a dark, quiet room, my videos, my bed, my pills. I hadn't been this far from home in many months. I was frightened.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I was traumatized, but my vocabulary was improving.”
Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“I was traumatizing her. I could only hope that at three she was too young to retain any of this in memory, that in the years to follow I could make up for any future need for therapy I was creating now. Could I? Or would she always have a deep insecurity, the kind that send people careening from one disastrous romance to the next? And why did I have to live my life obsessed with these kinds of concerns, this constant attempt to control the most uncertain of outcomes, my own effect on someone else's mind?”
Source: Husband and Wife
“I was traveling down the road with a buddy and there's a guy driving around in a jeep with a dead deer strapped to the hood. My buddy says to me you think he's been hunting? Nope, They're probably giving them away with the purchase of every jeep. Here's your sign!”
“I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.”
“I was travelling through a tunnel of light. The more I travelled, the lighter I felt. I was filled with a kind of ecstasy that I had never known before. I was moving closer and closer to the source of this beautiful light. All I wanted was to merge with that light. But suddenly I fell, like a flower falling off its stem, and returned to my body.”
Source: Jasmine Days
“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.”
“I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.”
“I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."”
“I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.”
“I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.”
Source: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography
“I was troubled by the presence of a shoe museum because it forced me to ask a very burning question: would my body be able to physically survive the amount of dope I would need to smoke in order to visit a shoeseum?”
“I was truly shocked at how unreliable the Desoto Solar Farm was!”
“I was truly shocked at what I found when I researched why I could not get my government disability payments.”
“I was truly shocked to discover how bad the modern medical profession really is!”
“I was truly shocked when I learned how few complaints police internal affairs upholds!”
“I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.' This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!”
“I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.”
“I was trying for ages to get through and I couldn't so I eventually left a message. I emailed as well.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.”
“I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.”
“I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.”
“I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.”
“I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.”
“I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.”
“I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.”
“I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.”
“I was trying to be someone else.”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.”
“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”
“I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.”
“I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.”
“I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.”
“I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.”
“I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.”
Source: Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories
“I was trying to check my email.” I swallow. “Get in touch with friends.”
“You don’t have friends, Misery.”
Source: Bride
“I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.”
“I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.”
“I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.”
“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.”
“I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.”
“I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.”
“I was trying to discover a word that is more than 'love' and it is 'devotion'.”
Source: Who has a heart and the mind?
“I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques.
I looked to the past for guidance, to find the graces we need to save. I want to be an importer. This is not nostalgia; I am not nostalgic. I am not looking for a way back. "From where will a renewal come to us, to us who have devastated the whole earthly globe?" asked Simone Weil. "Only from the past if we love it."
What I am looking for is the trick of having the same ax twice, for a restoration that renews the spirit, for work that transforms the worker. We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.
-- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”