I Quotes
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“I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.”
“I could be irksome when I put my left ventricle into it.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second.”
“I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.”
“I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.”
“I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.”
“I could be martyr’d for my Religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.”
“I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.”
Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats
“I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity; that smooth stretch of consciousness between the balls and ass.”
“I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.”
“I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.”
“I could be one if I wanted to, I'm just way too overqualified for a job that simple.”
“I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.”
“I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.”
“I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.”
“I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.”
“I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"”
“I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.”
“I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.”
Source: How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities
“I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration.”
“I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.”
“I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you're lost in your universes.”
“I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."”
“I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.”
“I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals."
The Panopticon”
“I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.”
“I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.”
“I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.”
Source: It's all in the playing
“I could be whatever they wanted me to be. A fun girl, a potential best friend, someone to tell secrets to over midnight snacks. This type of socializing was just me playing little roles for a few moments, but when I need to go all in, I can.”
Source: Never Saw Me Coming
“I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.”
“I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.”
“I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness.”
“I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.”
“I could be wrong about that, and [Susan Rice ] may have really wanted [secretary of state place]. But now she has become a liability. If, in fact, it was legitimate. If [Barack Obama] wanted her and she wanted it, they've told her to go pound sand now, and that's purely because of Benghazi.”
“I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.”
“I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.”
“I could be you, you could be me
Two raindrops in the same sea
You could be me, I could be you
Two angles of the same view
And we share the same blood”
Source: Coldplay - Everyday Life Songbook
“I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.”
“I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.”
“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
Source: Beach Music
“I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.”
“I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns.”
“I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.”
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“I could believe in them. In Andel’s strange protectiveness, Vidrol’s daring hope, Vale’s strength, Fjor’s aching weakness, and the fact that Helki was … mostly still just an asshole.”
Source: A Dream of Embers
“I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.”
Source: Private Peaceful
“I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.”
“I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.”
“I could break you and take you with me, but how would you suffer?”