I Quotes
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“I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.”
“I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.”
Source: Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
“I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others.”
“I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.”
“I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.”
“I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.”
“I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!”
“I built the solution I needed when I started.”
“I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.”
“I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.”
“I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.”
“I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.”
“I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.”
“I built your ego, then shattered it when you revealed your true self.”
“I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.”
“I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.”
“I bumped into my shadow
on the way to thorny feelings
she whispered to me:
‘You can’t rush your healing
Its time is not measured in seconds but steps
some forward, some backward
then forward again”
Source: The Purpose Ladder
“I bunch Rachel's hair in my fist. The silky strands rub the spot between my fingers and I press my lips to her head. My heart hurts and soars and hurts again, all at the same time. I said I love her. Love her.”
Source: Crash into You
“I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for reasons unknown to me, thought that it was better for him to be alone.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“I buoni scrittori toccano spesso la vita. I mediocri la sfiorano con una mano fuggevole. I cattivi scrittori la sforzano e l'abbandonano. Capite ora perché i libri sono odiati e temuti? Perché rivelano i pori sulla faccia della vita. La gente comoda vuole soltanto facce di luna piena, di cera, facce senza pori, senza peli, inespressive.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.”
“I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.”
“I buried her on the shore," he whispered as Fireheart padded up and sat down beside him. "She loved the river." He raised his head to where the first stars of Silverpelt were beginning to appear. "She hunts with StarClan now," he mewed softly. "Someday I'll find her again, and we'll be together.”
“I buried her once. I thought that was the end of our story.”
Source: The Wringler: A Letter From Home
“I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.”
Source: Where the Red Fern Grows
“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
Source: the bell jar
“I buried myself all over the garden but the pieces only sprouted into new riddles”
Source: Soft Science
“I buried myself so much in the classics that I felt, "Well now, I've played all the big parts, whether badly or goodly, I don't give a damn, but at least I've played them all. Now, let's start again. Let's start the whole career again." And it makes you feel like you're beginning again, it really does.”
“I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too.”
“I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!”
“I burn because it's the only way to show myself to others, but I find the darkness is more comforting than the light. Perhaps it's because that's where I can shine most brightly, without the competing glow from others. - The Malwatch”
“I burn my struggles and calm my mind”
“I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.”
“I burn the way money burns.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I burn with no causes.”
“I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.”
Source: Deathless
“I burned all our bridges - not knowing that love knows how to swim.”
“I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.”
Source: Vagabonds and Sundries
“I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.”
“I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.”
Source: Complete Poetry
“I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire”
“I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.”
“I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.”
“I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.”
“I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.”
Source: Ready Player One
“I burned too bright. I saw too much.”
“I burnt my life as proof that Naskar is human, yet apes continue to google, what religion is Naskar, what nationality is Naskar!”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America