I Quotes
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“I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.”
“I came here just for her. No, I’m not madly in love with her. I don’t believe in that kind of dogshit.”
Source: Burning Him Insane: A Dark Student–Professor Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
“I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.”
“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“I came here so that no one else would die. I came here to protect as many people as I could. And I care more about Tobias's safety than anyone else's. So why am I here, if he's here? What's the point?”
“I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.”
“I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.”
Source: In The Pit With Piper
“I came here to do a job, and my job is to hurt people.”
“I came "here" to get "there." Do I have any fucking clue what "there" is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead.”
Source: The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms
“I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.”
“I came here to learn. To grow stronger. To strive for perfection.”
Source: RWBY Official Manga Anthology Vol. 1: Red Like Roses
“I came here to live. To experience. To choose. To be anyone other than who I was. None of those things included talking.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I came here to peacefully show you the way to peace.”
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.”
“I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.”
“I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.”
“I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.”
“I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.”
“I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.”
Source: On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle
“I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the hallways that I should ever be afraid of.And then I found out - it sounds strange, but I found out she had left me the house. We never talked about her dying and what she was going to leave me or I would ever leave her. We just didn't talk about those things.”
“I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.”
“I came home and found that my son was taking drugs - my very best ones too!”
“I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.”
Source: Breath
“I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.”
Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
“I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.”
“I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.”
Source: Our Lady of Fátima
“I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!”
“I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'”
“I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.”
“I came home unexpectedly in the middle of the day and she was dressed up in her best clothes and make-up, like she was on her way out for a date. She told me never to come home in the middle of the day again! I left a few weeks later, as it was the final straw in the toxic relationship. She ended up with a rotating shift worker!”
“I came, I saw, I bought!”
Source: The New Land
“I came, I saw, I copied, and I left”
Source: Pirates of Bollywood
“I came
I saw
there were too many people
so I left.”
“I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow”
“I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.”
“I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.”
“I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.”
Source: Selected letters of James Joyce
“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj”
Source: Hind Swaraj
“I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!”
“I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.”
“I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.”
“I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.”
“I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood”
“I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.”
“I came in rather late in the casting process of Reaper. I believe they had all the other roles cast. They were having trouble finding the devil. They had seen almost 100 actors for the role. I got the script and I liked it - it was clever and witty and very, very funny, and a nice, fresh take on an old story. I went in and did a scene for the producers, the kitchen scene from the pilot where I'm cooking a chicken-fried steak. At the end of it, they all had a smile on their face, and they realized they had found their devil.”
“I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.”
“I came in the door, I said it before
I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line.
Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.”
“I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.”