I Quotes
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“I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.”
“I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a
lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when people
take intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides,
sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. I
meant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes the
problem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approach
is needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive.
Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is no
single answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there are
simple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-white
right-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like the
world in Unwind.”
“I wrote when I did not know life;
now that I do know the meaning of life,
I have no more to write.
Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.”
“I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.”
Source: Letters
“I wrote you a love letter, and I sent it snail mail. Love is forever, and that’s about how long it’ll take to get to you.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I wrote you a song about a funny old world that's coming along. It seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn. It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.”
“I wrote you a song. You didn’t understand it for all of the screaming, yet that was the metaphor.”
“I wrote you, you are mine," it continued, its voice as hard as its diamond eyes. "But I do not write everything you do and think. I do not write every decision you make. Not because I cannot-but because I will not.”
Source: The Word Changers
“I wrote your name in a book I cannot call poetry.”
Source: Diary of an old soul
“I wrote your name on the bullet so that everyone knew you were the last thing that went through my mind.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Clouds
“I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again.”
“I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until this moment, and trying to decide what songs to include on the Mini-Album was super difficult, because there were so many different sound/mood roads I could have gone down. But, after going through everything, these tracks seemed to fit together and communicate a similar sentiment and mood the best.”
“I wrote, recorded and produced everything myself. I played the guitars and keyboards while the drums were programmed. As a producer, I think music technology has reached a point, where the results that can be achieved in this way, allows me to create the music and sounds I envision.”
“I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.”
“I wrought me a lyric of fire and fear,
And called on the world to heed —
Till strong men blenched at my haggard face
And shuddered, but would not read.
So I stole me the gold of the mines of Joy
And fashioned a conscious lie —
And they gave me the wreath of the kings of Song
And prayed that I might not die!
(For the lie that I wrought was as old as the world
And dear as the vision of Heaven —
Of the crimson lure of a maiden's lips
And the myth of a sin forgiven!)
But my heart was sick, and my soul grew less,
With the light of my failing days,
Because I had lied to my Knowledge-God
For the pottage of human praise.
O I clung to the rim of the cliffs of Hell
And called on an empty Name —
Till there dropped the tears of a weeping Truth
And saved my soul from the flame.
So I hid my soul in a maiden's hair,
And climbed to a clearer view —
And I found I had lied to a lying God,
And the myth I had sung - was true!”
“I wuz bad. I did not meen to be. I wanted to see the litle peeple who lives in the radio. I could see the lits on. The radio fel on the flor. The lites won't even werk an thos peeple is ded.”
Source: In Search of April Raintree
“I wyszedłeś, jasny synku, z czarną bronią w noc,
i poczułeś, jak się czai w dźwięku minut - zło.
Zanim padłeś, jeszcze ziemię przeżegnałeś ręką.
Czy to była kula, synku, czy to serce pękło?”
Source: Liryki najpiękniejsze
“I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.”
“I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.”
“I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the status-quo for the sole purpose of fitting in. Whatever... gunrunners, terrorists, bankers, dictators, goons; we all have it coming.”
Source: Forlorn Passions
“I yawned, which is my cover for everything.”
Source: A Partial History of Lost Causes
“I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set”
“I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.”
“I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.”
“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.”
“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”
Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
“I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.”
“I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.”
Source: Hidden Light
“I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.”
Source: Gineger My Story
“I yearned for everything long gone.”
Source: Schoolgirl
“I yearned for love from a person who didn’t have it to give. I yearned for love from a person who was never loved, so why in the hell did I think she could give me what she never had?”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“I yearned for that brief, sharp feeling I get when I drink it - a sad, burning feeling - and then, blissfully, no feelings at all.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.”
“I yearned to immerse myself in the shadows of that furtive existence. I longed to breach the impenetrable walls of that fortress.”
Source: Bella Donna
“I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my business there.
My business,—just a life I left,
Was such still dwelling there?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle.”
“I yell at the players if I don't like the way they are playing. But when they're playing well, I hug them.”
“I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.”
“I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.”
“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”
Source: The Serpent's Tale
“I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.”
Source: The Lily of the Valley
“I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.”
“I you don't value your time, no one else will.”
“I {} you more than [[[{{{}}}]]].”
Source: Magonia
“I... you're perfect.'
His expression tightened. 'No, I'm not. You deserve someone who is, but I'm too much of a bastard to allow that.'
I shook my head, unsure how he couldn't see that he was deserving. 'I disagree with everything you just said.'
'Shocker,' he said, and then he curled his arm around me.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I you tell me to bite you, I might take you literally. - The Malwatch”
“I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.”
“I you're in prayer, take care of your heart.
If you're eating, take cre of your throat.
If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes.
If you among people, take care of your tongue.”