I Quotes
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“I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.”
“I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.”
“I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?”
Source: Assholes Finish First
“I could never lead a Bible study; I don't know Scripture that well.”
“I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.”
Source: The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time
“I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.”
“I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.”
“I could never leave,' Pine Sap said.
'Why?' she asked.
Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.”
“I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“I could never live with you; not 'cause I'm racist or nothing. It's just 'cause as a black man in America, I need to have someone I can come home and complain about white people to. And that just don't work with my white wife.”
“I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.”
“I could never love better when I was young, I loved better when I was old.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“I could never love where I could not respect.”
“I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?”
“I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.”
“I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.”
“I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.”
“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”
Source: My Story
“I could never properly explain the bond I have with my fans, I feel like they are my family, they are just so supportive and incredibly dedicated I could never put into words how thankful I am for them. They inspire me and I want to keep doing what I'm doing because of them, it's so amazing.”
“I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well”
“I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.”
“I could never really get it. I could never really understand. But I could strive for empathy. I could at least do that.”
Source: First & Then
“I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.”
Source: The Suicide Garden and Other Stories
“I could never really tell you what direction. It's just however God just makes it; that's how all of my albums are. I don't really aim for a direction, but I just pick the best beats I can pick and that's it.”
“I could never regret you. Us”
Source: Only Mine
“I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.”
“I could never resist the call of the trail.”
Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography
“I could never respect a man who didn't have the good sense to be at least a little bit afraid of me.”
Source: Shantaram
“I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.”
“I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.”
“I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.”
“I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God”
“I could never see it before…
But I can now.
Parents aren’t superheroes.
Superhumans.
They’re just humans, doing their best, making mistakes, getting knocked on their ass and crawling until they can get back up again.”
Source: Dear Love, I Hate You
“I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.”
“I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.”
“I could never sit down and write jokes.”
“I could never sit in a room and just play all by myself. I needed to play for people and all the time. You can say I practiced in public.”
Source: Chronicles, Volume One
“I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. Ive still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that theyd finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.”
“I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.”
“I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.”
“I could never stop eating meat... I'm not a good person to talk about diets. If I had to only eat salads, I'd kill myself!”
“I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.”
“I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.”
“I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.”
“I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I could never think of him in New England. When I lived in New England for a while and was separated from him by no more than fifty miles, I continued to imagine him as stuck in Italy somewhere, unreal and spectral.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life