I Quotes
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“I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.”
“I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is hands down one of the most original, innovative, kickass female fictional characters ever.”
“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”
“I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help”
“I'd fallen in love with the devil.”
“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”
Source: A Passage to India
“I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.”
“I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.”
“I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.”
“I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.”
“I'd feel more of the pressures of daily life, obsessed about finding a job or love. Maybe I've taken these things for granted. I go through a lot of other things in the music industry, but "daily life" is a whole different war to fight.”
“I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.”
Source: Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away
“I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.”
“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.”
“I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.”
“I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.”
“I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?”
“I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.”
“I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!”
“I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.”
Source: The Hungry Moon
“I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.”
Source: Plays
“I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.”
“I'd forgotten how exuberant you are”
Source: New Moon
“I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.”
Source: Living Dead Girl
“I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.”
“I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.”
“I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.”
“I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.”
“I'd forgotten what an honest sandwich it is. For those of you not familiar, 'BLT' stands for 'bacon, lettuce, and tomato.' A lot of people think the 'B' stands for 'bread,' and I can understand someone not wanting a lettuce and tomato sandwich. But, the bread is implied in the word 'sandwich.' Anyway, it's an American original. Everyone should have a BLT as soon as they can.”
“I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.”
“I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.”
Source: Shiver
“I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.”
Source: A Good Yarn
“I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.”
“I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac? It's simple. Keep watching rainbows, baby. Keep looking at the sky. You find what you look for. If you go hunting good in the world, you'll find it. If you go hunting evil . . . well, don't.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.”
“I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.”
“I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.”
“I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.”
“I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.”
“I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!”
“I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.”
“I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.”
“I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.”
“I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer.”
“I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.”
“I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.”
“I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There
“I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again”
“I'd give dollar for indefinite article.”