I Quotes
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“I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.”
“I could smell garlic, butter, and wine - the world's most delicious flavor combination. It made me feel warm, like the first few sips of wine always do.”
Source: The Violets of March
“I could smell her perfume, sultry and deep, too loud for such a small space.
"Poison," Victoria said, shooting me a knowing smile.
"What?" Fisher said, turning.
"It's a fragrance, circa 1985," she explained. "It got completely cheapened later, but the vintage stuff is still striking." She paused, sniffing lightly, ticking off scents on her fingers. "Plum, coriander, and opoponax."
"What?"
"It's a myrrh.”
Source: The Scent Keeper
“I could smell myself awake with that coffee.”
“I could smell something. Fear.
I could taste it now.
It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...”
Source: Getting The Girl
“I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
“I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even
placed.”
“I could sneak up on a coyote if I've a mind to!”
“I could solve all the Diophantine equations, extend Newton’s work on infinite series, complete Euler's analysis of prime numbers, and it wouldn’t matter.” She looked at Isabelle. “Ella is the beauty. You and I are the ugly stepsisters. And so the world reduces us, all three of us, to our lowest common denominator.”
Source: Stepsister
“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.”
“I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.”
“I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.”
“I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.”
“I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.”
“I could spend a year trying to describe him, but you still wouldn't fully appreciate his unique appeal until your panties spontaneously combusted the first time he smiled at you.”
Source: Reaper's Legacy
“I could spend all night getting ready for bed.”
“I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.”
Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
“I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.”
“I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg coiled around his. I thought of coming back here in the weeks or months to come—for this was our spot.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.”
Source: Never Underestimate a Hermit Crab
“I could spend the whole afternoon telling you about him, but it's not gonna do much good, is it? You never smelled his hair after he just got out of the bath, or carried him from the car after he'd fallen asleep on the way home, or heard the way he laughed when someone tickled him. So you'll just have to take my word for it: He was a great kid and he made you glad to be alive.”
Source: The Leftovers
“I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.”
“I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.”
Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
“I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.”
“I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom of a desire he cherished more than he cherished me, the woman he claimed to love.”
Source: The Queen of the Night
“I could stand in the middle Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.”
“I could stand in the middle of Front Street shrieking like a banshee and nobody would notice me. You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. So stand behind me and think quiet thoughts.”
Source: The Reach Between Worlds
“I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.”
“I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.”
“I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.”
“I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.”
Source: Paper Towns
“I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.”
“I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.”
“I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable. ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller.”
“I could stay depressed about my bad memory, but that's a negative way to live. Let's look on the bright side and list the advantages of having a bad memory.
(1) You can reread a book and see a movie over and over and enjoy it as much as the first time.
(2) If you make an inconvenient promise, you can pretend that you forgot about it and still be forgiven.
(3) This is the most important thing: you can keep coming up with ideas without being held back by convictions or the past.”
“I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.”
“I could stay here forever." "But you won't." "Maybe I will.”
“I could stay like this forever,” I murmured. “We could find solutions for the Darkness. I could remain the final shield. If it can’t ever find me, it can’t ever destroy me. There will always be one final barrier to break down. Maybe it could be enough. You could have a life and I won’t even notice. Have babies. Have sex. Fall in love.”
“In that order?”
Source: A City of Whispers
“I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.”
Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.”
“I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.”
“I could steal words from my idol,
Echo lyrics of a vinyl,
But I have this feeling since we first met,
That the right words haven’t been written yet.”
Source: U-Day
“I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“I could still be anybody.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.”
Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon
“I could still be more human in anything I wrote than by interacting with any of these people.”
Source: It's a Big Big World
“I could still box your ears.”
“Nonsense,” he scoffed. “You couldn’t reach that high.”
Source: The Winter Bride
“I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.”
“I could still feel the distinct sensation of her lips pressed to my forehead, as if the last kiss she gave me before her new husband drove away was permanently tattooed onto my skin.”
Source: To Dwell Among Cedars
“I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.”