I Quotes
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“I can't wait to see him again, to hold my son's face in my hands and tell him how proud I am of him. We think we have time for such things, but there's never enough for all we should have said.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“I can't wait to see the ballet later,' Rachel giggled. Kirsty put her arm around her best friend and grinned at her. 'Me neither,' she said. 'It's going to be magical!”
Source: Robyn the Christmas Party Fairy
“I can't wait until they don't have me here anymore.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know.”
“I can't watch The Wizard of Oz / without wondering how many times / the Scarecrow had his heart broken / no brain to tell him no / all that courage telling him yes / I wonder if he was desperate from all that hurt / if he'd spend some nights asking the Tin Man if he was a fool / Tin Man saying yes / saying obviously / saying of course / because how could he know / how could he see / with that hole in his chest / where a heart should be.
I can't watch The Wizard of Oz / without walking memory lane like a yellow brick road/ at the end of which / is someone who still loves me.”
Source: Heretic Hearts
“I can't wear thethe! I want my thtwipey oneth!”
Source: House of Many Ways
“I can't wear this,” she said from inside the dressing room. “It's too small.”
“Let's see,” Nick said. “Come on out.”
“Get me a bigger size. A lot bigger.”
Nick opened the door and looked in at Kate. “Whoa,” he said on a gush of air. His pupils dilated to the point where his brown eyes were almost totally black, and Kate decided the dress must look better than she'd first thought.
“Well?” she asked.
“I think I'm in love,” Nick said. “But then my brain isn't completely engaged right now. That's not where the blood is flowing.”
“Too much information” Kate said. “It would have been enough to tell me I look okay.”
“Honey you look a lot better than okay.”
“You don't think I look slutty?”
“Not at these prices,” Nick said.”
Source: The Heist
“I can’t win. Love is Russian roulette for me. No one loves the real me inside. they're all in love with my fame, my stardom. I fall in love far too quickly and end up getting hurt all the time. I've got scars all over. But I can't help myself because basically I'm a softie I have this hard, macho shell — which I project on stage but there's a much softer side. too, which melts like butter.”
“I can’t—won’t do that to him,” Summer says sharply. “Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren’t real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can’t trust that any of this is real.”
Source: Burning Falls
“I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.”
“I can't write a word anymore; I just started building my vocabulary.”
“I can't write a world anymore, just start building my vocabulary.”
“I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?”
“I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.”
“I can take a little beating now and then. I’m a tough one. I’m a star. I’m steel-chested and diamond-eyed. Cyborgs live and then they break, but I’ll never break. Even when my bone dust drifts over the City walls, I’ll be living and I’ll be flying, and I will wave and laugh.”
Source: Radio Silence
“I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.”
“I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.”
“I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word”
“I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.”
“I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.”
“I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.”
“I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.”
Source: A Noël Coward gala: his words and music, volume two
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.”
Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”
Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
“I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.”
“I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.”
“I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.”
“I can take away the pain of your loss. I will cut out the shape of your grief, but I will have to also cull the memories of your sister. It will be as if Del had never been born, as if her life had never twined with yours for seven years. Would you choose that, to ease your suffering? To be able to draw a full breath again, to live a carefree life once more?"
I didn't even hesitate. I could barely look the goddess in the eyes. but I firmly sad, "No."
Not even for a moment would I trade my pain to erase Del's life.”
Source: Divine Rivals
“I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.”
“I can take care of myself. He doesn't scare me, Elizabeth; he disgusts me. There's a difference."
Elizabeth knew this feeling exactly. She bent down and put her arms around Harriet. Despite their friendship, the two women rarely touched.
"There's nothing I wouldn't do for you," Elizabeth said, pulling her close. "You know that, don't you?"
Harriet, surprised, looked up at Elizabeth, tears forming. "Well me, too. Ditto." Then the older woman finally pulled away. "I'll be okay," Harriet promised, wiping her face. "Just let it go."
But Elizabeth was not the type of person who let things go.”
Source: Lessons in Chemistry
“I can take care of myself,” I said hotly.
“Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself.”
Source: Locked and Loaded
“I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.”
“I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.”
“I can take criticisms but not compliments.”
“I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I can take everything that I am and bring the whole of it to bear on the darkness in your life. But it will do you no good. It will cast no light. It will lend no hope. And therefore, I don’t wish to gift you with the disappointment of myself. Rather, I would wish to point you away from myself and direct you to the God in Whom you will find everything that I could never be, for it was within Him that I became everything that I never was.”
“I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.”
“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
“I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.”
“I can take more pain than anyone.”
“I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.”
“I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.”
“I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.”
“I can take so much,
'Till I've had enough.”
Source: Jar of Hearts: Piano/Vocal/Guitar, Sheet
“I can take something for her, something small. Flowers? I look around the school grounds. Blackcliff doesn't have flowers. Maybe I'll give her a dagger. There are plenty of those around, and skies know she needs one.”
“I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.”
“I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.”
“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
“I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it.”
“I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.”