I Quotes
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“I could never be your god
And I don't even think I want the job anymore”
“I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.”
“I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a side of my brain.”
“I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.”
“I could never bring myself to burn the bridge, for it was built with the bricks of love, even though it led to a distant shore, I always kept a lantern of hope, and awaiting the day they might cross it back to me.”
Source: NIRVANA: RAGA • DVESHA • MOHA
“I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.”
“I could never count on people, but books... they don't lie or betray you.”
Source: To Kill a Shadow
“I could never cut you out of my hair, wash you out of my mouth, bleed you out of my body.”
Source: The Sharp Edge of Seashells
“I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.”
Source: Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend
“I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.”
“I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.”
“I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.”
“I could never dream of being cool.”
“I could never endorse any candidate because not one of them is saying that which would save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).”
“I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.”
“I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.”
“I could never finally figure out if more things happened in the sixties because there was more awake time for them to happen in (since so many people were on amphetamine), or if people started taking amphetamine because there were so many things to do that they needed to have more awake time to do them in. I only slept two or three hours a night from '65 through '67, but I used to see people who hadn't slept for days at a time and they'd say things like "I'm hitting my ninth day and it's glorious!”
Source: POPism: The Warhol Sixties
“I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.”
“I could never forget, and the break never mended. Like a glass vase that you place on the edge of a table, once broken, the pieces never quite fit again.
However the problem wasn't with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edge of tables.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.”
“I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.”
“I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!”
“I could never hate anyone I knew.”
“I could never hate you as much as I love you.”
Source: Elicit
“I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“I could never hate you, for all my hate is reserved for myself. I have none left for anyone else.”
Source: Chain of Thorns
“I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.”
“I could never have a threesome. This is not a threesome body. This is a turn off the lights body, leave your shirt on body - this is a tell nobody.”
“I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American
“I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.”
“I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.”
“I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.”
“I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.”
“I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words, such slashing of humbug, and humbug too, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights breaking across the just-waking wits and splashing all over the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which all of which were words, words, words, and each of which were alive forever in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words, such slashing of humbug, and humbug too, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights breaking across the just-waking wits and splashing all over the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which were words, words, words, and each of which were alive forever in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.”
“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.”
“I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.”
“I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.”
“I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.”
“I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.”
“I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still wanted to hear about it. I do love how we came back to it, but it was never up to me. It won't be up to me this time, either. If it ended there, I would be sad, but I also like what we did.”
“I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.”
“I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.”
“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
“I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.”
Source: A Monstrous Regiment of Women
“I could never imagine them weeping and hollering and fainting, because I knew only black folk did that. Surely we were the only ones to feel the pain deep down in our marrow so that it had to come forth, spewing up in moans and groans and chants, till we felt better. I wondered how they kept their pain all twisted and knotted up inside, like a corked bottle.”
Source: Wade in the Water