I Quotes
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“I was wearing another of Saffy’s dresses and a touch of red lipstick. I looked nice. I even liked my hair. I felt like I had been in hiding for years, and now, for the first time, I felt I was coming out of the cave. Right as my time was running out.”
“I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.”
“I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.”
“I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.”
“I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.”
“I was wearing those shoes because…well, because sometimes you need to feel like a different version of yourself.”
Source: Someone Else's Shoes
“I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.”
“I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.”
“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.”
“I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.”
“I was well aware of her ghosts. I'd met them, once or twice, during her darkness nights. "I knew you were my one when you wouldn't run," she said. How could I? Of course I stayed, when her ghosts scared my own away. What others were too afraid to see, meant everything to me.”
“I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.”
“I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.”
“I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.”
“I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.”
“I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.”
“I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.”
“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.”
“I was well on the way to tacking together a sort of nature religion to make up fro Grandpa's defection, an apotheosis of the back of beyond, in which I was just another thinking thing, neuter, drab, camouflaged. There'd be sermons in stones, and books to read in the haybarn, for ever and ever. Amen.”
Source: Bad Blood
“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”
Source: Wild Ink
“I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.”
“I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.”
Source: With Malice Toward Some
“I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?”
“I was wet but not soaked. Just enough to look like a sponge, but not a mop.”
Source: Lost in Ireland
“I was what I was, but I am what I am.”
“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”
“I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life
“I was what you are, you will be what I am.”
“I was where I craved to be, walking alone in the presence of wild solitude, the treasure of aloneness seeping from the sunlight, from the blue waters, from the patterned stones.”
Source: A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
“I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality.”
Source: Death, Doom, and Detention
“I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.”
“I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.”
“I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for a time, and then I was changed ... I felt there was no ease or comfort for me except faith, hope and love, and truly I felt very little of this. And then presently God gave me again comfort and rest for my soul ... And then again I felt the pain, and then afterwards the delight and joy, now the one and now the other, again and again, I suppose about twenty times.”
“I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.”
“I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.”
“I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.”
“I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.”
Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.”
“I was willing to give my life up for hers. Now she's giving me life. Nothing could be better.”
Source: Madness
“I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.”
Source: Bitter Sweet
“I was willing to pay the price--any price--just to stand by what was the biggest thing in my life. But you were true to nothing--to nothing--to nobody.”
Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker
“I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.”
“I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.”
Source: Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”
“I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.”
“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”
“I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!”