I Quotes
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“I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.”
“I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or personal or anything but where I'm at in the moment. But I can see it sort of after I finish.”
“I can only show what I have received from the characters. That's what's scary because you're never going to be everyone's taste and you don't want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do.”
“I can only show you the doors, you must choose one to walk through and discover what you find on the other side.”
“I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.”
“I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.”
“I can only sit and wait, knowing that one day he will turn full around, step down from his stage, and claim me for the abyss I have always feared. Perhaps then I will discover what it was I did - what any of us did - to deserve this fate.”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.”
“I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.”
“I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.”
“I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.”
“I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.”
“I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.”
Source: New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
“I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.”
“I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.”
“I can only speak from my personal journey and my personal struggles which are completely different from other individuals but if I can slightly help someone else understand themselves, then that's perfect. Because I only make music, there's so much emotion in the music itself that I hope people can tap into and feel the same way I feel when I listen to it.”
“I can only speak of wonder. But if you are too blinded by the shallowness of men who shout empty platitudes into hungry hearts, my words will be crowded out by the empty platitudes that stole the place in your heart that wonder was created for.”
“I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.”
“I can only strive for what is important”
Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel
“I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.”
“I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.”
“I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.”
“I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.”
“I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.”
“I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.”
“i can only think god is responsible for passion,for god gives us bodies with which to express it and heart in which to hold it”
Source: A Notorious Countess Confesses
“I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.”
“I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.”
“I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.”
“I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.”
“I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.”
Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.”
“I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.”
“I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.”
“I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.”
“I can only wonder what would have happened to my long term health had I not discovered that the atmospheric DC voltage had gone missing and used the human body DC battery charging techniques to replace it.”
Source: Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
“I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.”
“I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.”
“I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.”
“I can order you to your death," Padmé said. Her voice was so quiet that Sabé barely heard her. She reached out and took Padmé's hands.
"And I would go," she said.
"I can't be that dedicated to you," Padmé said.
"I know," Sabé said.”
“I can overcome any hurdle when I am in my vibrational essence!”
“I can overcome my illness of attachment.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.”
Source: Gustav Klimt Artworks
“I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.”
“I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.”
“I can paint you a picture, but to really enjoy what I'm enjoying; you need to be intertwine with me.”
“I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.”
“I can pass a drug test in eight days with herbal cleansers. I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day. I'll be fine.”
“I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.”
Source: Poetical works complete