I Quotes
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“I could bring the difficult childhood card but that would be a lie because I had the most decent example of a good childhood. I never lacked love, on the contrary, I think I had an excess of it because too much love made me incapable of seeing the evilness of this world. And when I did, it made me start to question all the good in this world.”
Source: The story is about me
“I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.”
“I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.”
“I could burn a forest down with these feelings--feelings desperate to erupt. Volcanic. A cauldron expanding with the fullness of longings, ready to scorch this backward little village.”
Source: Persianality
“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”
Source: Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point
“I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.”
Source: Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files
“I could call Mom from the office to pick me up, but I think I'd rather rot for the rest of my life in this dank-ass office than look her in the eye right now.”
Source: The Champions
“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”
Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader
“I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.”
“I could care less about clothes, money, or fame. I want
to live by the sea. That’s the place where I can truly
be me. I must
have been a mermaid in a past life.
Because the sea is
the place where all my painful memories fade.”
Source: Watch For The Exit
“I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.”
“I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later.”
“I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.”
“I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.”
“I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time for us.”
“I could care less what people think.”
“I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.”
“I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.”
“I could claim that all my projects are altruistic, but I don't do that. All I'm saying is this: is it really a sacrilege to do the best you can, to express yourself, to do what I do?”
Source: My Life at the Limit
“I could close my eyes and believe that we have never been apart. I could invent a new past to remember.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me
“I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.”
“I could compare my music to white light which contains all colors. Only a prism can divide the colors and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.”
“I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.”
“I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.”
“I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.”
“I could couch my insecurity in the rhetoric of 'eat the rich', but I would rather analyse what it is of theirs that I both hate and want. The stability, the entitlement, the good seat to watch the world burn from?”
Source: Nothing but My Body
“I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.”
“I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.”
“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.”
“I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.”
“I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.”
Source: It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy
“I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“I could cut my leg off. I could cut my arm off. I could gouge an eye out. I'd still probably survive. But not very well. And that's what we're doing to the oceans. It's the life-support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it. We've been polluting it. We've been destroying it for decades. And we're essentially maiming ourselves.”
“I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite; but these things did not surprise anyone very much. But everybody was astonished about the scissor cuts, which seemed a more unusual accomplishment. The silhouettes were very much praised, and I cut out silhouettes for all the birthdays in the family. Did anyone warn me as to where this path would lead? Not in the least; I was encouraged to continue.”
“I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.”
“I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.”
“I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin.”
“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”
Source: Conversations on the Craft of Poetry
“I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.”
“I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals.”
“I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.”
“I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.”
“I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.”
“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.”
“I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.”
“I could die a million times if my death would be the reason our love would live forever.”
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“I could die from this, I decided. From wanting him, from the pleasure of being with him.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel