I Quotes
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“I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.”
“I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately”
“I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: "I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe in those who speak of other worldly hopes!" Learn your first lesson of trust by trusting the earth. It is your home right now!”
“I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.”
“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.”
“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.”
“I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.”
“I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.”
Source: The Gap Year
“I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.”
“I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in the present. You cannot laugh in the future and you cannot laugh in the past. All those people who have created this retarded humanity have taken away all juice, all laughter, all smiles, and dragged everybody into being inauthentic. And if you are inauthentic, insincere, you can never grow the seed that has been given to you by this great compassionate universe.”
“I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.”
“I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only emptiness; it is always unfulfilled. By the very nature, by its very intrinsic nature, it cannot attain to fulfillment. When you are not, fulfillment is. Call it God, or give it a name Patanjali would like - samadhi - the attainment of the ultimate, but it comes when you disappear.”
“I would like you to know that my every heartbeat sings your song, my every breath waits for your presence, and my every cell dances with joy when I am thinking of you.”
“I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.”
“I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.”
Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992
“I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.”
“I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?”
“I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.”
“I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.”
“I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.”
Source: Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].
“I would like, in my life, to always be doing things I'm proud of. I know that probably won't happen all the time. But I'd prefer to be telling stories I can be proud of and understand why they're being told. I do watch a lot of films and TV, but sometimes I think: "Why the hell did you make that then?" I won't say what they are though.”
“I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.”
“I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they’re probably improving the world more than we acknowledge.”
“I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.”
“I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.”
“I would listen to him go on praising Mina for a day, so I simply nodded and stood silent”
Source: Dracula
“I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.”
“I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.”
“I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.”
“I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.”
“I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.”
“I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.”
Source: Hard lines
“I would live at the beach if I could, and I love dancing.”
“I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.”
“I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.”
“I would live the same life over if I had to live again,
And the chances are I go where most men go.”
Source: The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon: Edited with Introduction, Notes & Appendixes, by Frank Maldon Robb
“I would live to study, not study to live.”
“I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.”
“I would loathe to work on modern films.”
“I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.”
“I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.”
“I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.”
“I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.”
“I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“I would lose my life for you before finding something else worth living for.”
“I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.”
“I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.”
“I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.”
“I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.”
“I would love a combination of action/adventure and... love. And stories told with heart. I would like people to be invigorated as well as moved. People to see the movie and see that. I love to play, y'know, well-rounded characters.”