I Quotes
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“I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.”
“I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
“I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.”
“I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.”
“I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.”
“I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.”
“I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.”
“I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.”
“I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.”
“I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.”
“I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.”
“I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.”
“I comprehended how many kind and beautiful souls I can inspire through my experience of this light during this journey of surviving insecurities and societal stereotyping. That’s how this journey “journey of life” started.”
Source: Journal Of Life
“I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.”
“I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.”
Source: Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments
“I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.”
“I concede your god is the only god, except for one - my pal up there nowhere, Mr. NOT.”
“I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.”
“I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
“I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.”
Source: The Possibility of Altruism
“I conceive it to be a duty to content for what is right, be the issue as it may.”
“I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is one, a humanity which is one, a humanity which shares everything outer and inner a deep spiritual brotherhood.”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”
“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”
Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort
“I conceive of the magic of prayers. I conceive of the magic of blasphemies. There is witchcraft in religion: there may be witchcraft in atheism.”
Source: Wild Talents
“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.”
Source: Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of
“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894
“I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".”
“I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.”
“I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.”
“I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.”
Source: The fall
“I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.”
Source: The Road To Mecca
“I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.”
“I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.”
“I conceived the idea from my personal everyday experience, so what's better than to capture myself in the perfect mood.”
“I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.”
“I concentrate on Anna, noting the carefully put-together earth-toned outfit—could it be that all women of a certain age are assigned to earth tones?”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.”
“I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.”
“I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.”
“I concentrate on the Absolut and cranberry I'm holding and it looks like a glassful of thin, watery blood with ice and a lemon wedge in it.”
Source: American Psycho
“I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.”
“I concentrate on what I am going to say to Vivi, instead of thinking of Cardan. I do not want to consider what happened between us. I do not want to think about the way his muscles moved or how his skin felt or the soft gasping sounds he made or the slide of his mouth against mine.
I definitely don’t want to think about how hard I had to bite my own lip to keep quiet. Or how obvious it was that I’d never done any of the things we did, no less the things we didn’t do.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She blinked. "Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.”
“I concentrated my thoughts on being the solid, perfect girl in my head, instead of the faded and jaded half-girl I really was.”
Source: Preloved
“I concentrated on training myself to react little or not at all. I learned to reduce my emotions to the minimum.”
Source: The Story of a New Name
“I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.”