I Quotes
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“I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.”
“I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.”
“I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“I could point out that that's not a dress, that's underwear, but I doubt it would be in my best interest." "Need I remind you," said Sebastian, "That that is my sister?" "Most brother's would be delighted to see such a clean-cut gentleman as myself squiring their sister's about town.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.”
“I could practically see the hatred forming within those big green eyes of hers. And despite the fact that that should have been exactly what I wanted from her, I couldn't help but feel like I'd just fucked up somehow. Like I'd failed at something without even knowing what it was.”
Source: The Awakening as Told by the Boys
“I could pretend that I was ok
I wind around the parties, drink in hand
I could pretend when you went away
That I had changed and I no longer hear the band”
“I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.”
“I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.”
“I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that.”
“I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.”
“I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.”
“I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.”
“I could probably write a book on the complexities of our relationship, on my constantly shifting emotions, my ever-changing mind, but let's just say that nothing is ever as black and white as it seems, that love is not only blind but pathetic too. It can make us into victims and fools, reduce us to the kind of people who infuriate us on soap operas, the kind you want to scream at for allowing the creep or bitch to walk all over them.”
Source: Fiddleback: A Novel
“I could probably write an entire book
just about the ways that music has shifted me
and changed me and moved me and saved me.
Like gospel.
So when I say that "poetry is my scripture" and
"music is my gospel," I am saying that there are
poems and songs that are carrying my soul
from one breath to the next in this life.”
Source: she's flowers and fire
“I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.”
“I could puke on myself and still be good looking.”
“I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.”
“I could quit the committee. But that would leave Bonnie and Meredith holding the bag. And I keep remembering what Matt said when I asked him to get Stefan to come to the dance: "You want everybody and everything revolving around Elena Gilbert."
That isn't true. Or at least, if it has been in the past, I'm not going to let it be true anymore. I want--oh, this is going to sound completely stupid, but I want to be worthy of Stefan. I know he wouldn't let the guys on the team down just to suit his own convenience. I want him to be proud of me.
I want him to love me as much as I love him.”
“I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.”
“I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.”
“I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.”
“I could reach these kids, and they reached back. They put a Band-Aid on some type of wound I'd never quite located.”
Source: How to Say I Love You Out Loud
“I could react or respond to your maliciousness against me but I'm busy with stocktaking, counting my blessings one by one.”
“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”
“I could read you a poem. Librarians like poems.' And then she quoted Robert Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference...”
Source: The Midnight Library
“I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.”
“I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.”
“I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.”
“I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.”
“I could really use someone else's smile today.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I could reassemble my life by picking up only those pieces that I wanted. There were no guarantees, but there was peace in knowing that I would be able to face the next detour when it arrived.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.”
Source: Distract My Hunger
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth.
I would know him in the death, at the end of the world”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.”
“I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.”
“I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.”
Source: The Boy who Made Good
“I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ages there has never been a great historical infamy committed for which there couldn't be found a symbol just as big, to justify it. That, in consequence, we would do well to pay attention to great certainties, to great invocations, to the great 'droughts' and 'rains'. That the temper of our most violent outbursts might benefit from a shade less enthusiasm.
I could reply. But what good would it do? I have a simple, resigned, inexplicable sensation that everything that is happening is in the normal order of things and that I am awaiting a season that will come and pass -- because it has come and passed before.”
Source: For Two Thousand Years
“I could ride away and hide away Where we were miles apart But when I got there I'd find you there Right in my heart”
“I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.”
“I could run farther than a hare! I could fight the fiercest fox that ever lived...I could climb the highest mountain faster than an eagle could fly.”
Source: Outcast
“I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?”
“I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.”
“I could run, too, but my feet hurt. It's tough being a fashion vixen.”
Source: Dead End Dating
“I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.”
“I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.”