I Quotes
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“I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.”
Source: Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
“I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.”
“I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn”
Source: A Night Without Armor
“I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.”
“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.”
“I'd sleep outside naked in the blizzard,for you.”
“I'd sleep under a Vermeer.”
“I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel. "It was all because of the shower gel," I said. Morelli's eyes narrowed. "Shower gel?" I made a major effort not to sigh. "Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.”
Source: Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.”
“I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.”
“I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.”
“I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.”
“I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.”
Source: Christmas Holiday
“I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.”
“I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.”
Source: Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
“I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?”
“I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.”
“I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.”
“I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.”
“I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.”
Source: Eleven on Top
“I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.”
“I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry”
Source: Chourmo
“I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.”
“I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.”
“I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.”
Source: Multiple Choice
“I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."”
“I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?”
“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”
“I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!”
“I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.”
“I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.”
“I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.”
“I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.”
“I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.”
“I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.”
“I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.”
“I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.”
“I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.”
Source: Sam Walton: Made In America
“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.”
“I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.”
Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.”
Source: Ink Exchange
“I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."”
“I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.”
“I'd stop the world from spinning for you”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet [Jackson] likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.”
“I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.”
“I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”