I Quotes
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“I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?' 'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing.”
“I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'”
Source: Freak The Mighty
“I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It’s something you need to see for yourself.”
Source: The Proverbial Mr. Universe
“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, uncaring in the end.”
Source: A Short Stay in Hell
“I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.”
“I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.”
“I could tell you that the flies were Ecdyonurus dispar, or Soumatti meddup, but I’m hopeless at entomology. Conclusion? ‘Little brown things fluttering above the water’.”
Source: Fly Fishing: Fennel's Journal No. 5
“I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?”
“I could tell you the truth about me... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you.”
“I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.”
“I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.”
“I could then see how, when she laughed, her face filled with kindness. But strangely, it was at that same moment I first wondered if Josie might be one of those lonely children Manager and I had talked about.”
“I could think of any moment and see him weaved throughout it. It was as though his soul was interwoven with mine”
Source: Fragments
“I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.”
“I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.”
“I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.”
“I could tie someone up with that silk scarf and throw him into the river, his bloated body bobbing up in the morning to spoil the tourists’ breakie.
I could stab someone’s eardrums in with the stiletto of my candy-pink heels.
I could slit someone’s eyeballs open with my mermaid scale sequin bomber jacket.
And I’d look fabulous doing it.
I think about that sometimes. The utility of beauty.”
Source: Diary of a Damsel Dame
“I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness.”
Source: Educated
“I could trade without knowing the name of the market.”
“I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. ….
With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.”
Source: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns
“I could treat you to dinner as a thank-you..."
Don't you mean I could treat you?"
"You're already a treat, sweetie.”
Source: A Novel Love Story
“I could trick him into taking me for a ride,” I said. “You could follow us in your truck. Then you could—”
“No,” Will said sharply. “You’d go over the cliff with him, Cynda.”
“I’d jump out before it went over the edge,” I said quickly. “Like people do in movies.”
How actors did things like that I had no idea, but it didn’t matter. If I had to die to destroy Vincent, I would. Anything—even death—would be better than being his forever.”
Source: Look for Me by Moonlight
“I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.”
“I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.”
“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway?”
Source: Use Of Weapons
“I could try to care, but I ain't sure it's worth the bother.”
Source: Veiled Rose
“I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.”
“I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.”
“I could turn up the volume on their songs and that loudness matched all my panic and fear, anger and emotions that seemed up until that point to be uncontrollable, even amorphous.”
“I could turn you over to the bluejackets, you know. It's in your best interest to come to terms."
Han shrugged and ran his hand over the interior wall. "This place could burn down, you know. Maybe even with you inside. That'd be a shame.”
“I could understand why some fella’s take drugs just before their crimes: because they need something to help them quiet their minds. However, I don’t do drugs nor do I drink alcohol, but the thing that gets me high like a kite is a crime well done. Then there’s the scent of freshly fired gunpowder, or the sounds of the empty bullet casings hitting the ground as they are ejected each time I pull the trigger. These two things never fail to get me high; the truth is I’m seriously addicted to violence.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”
Source: Three Lives
“I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.”
Source: Find You in the Dark
“I could use some help with an FTA. What's your problem? He's old, and I'll look like a loser if I shoot him.”
Source: Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.”
Source: The Finkler Question
“I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.”
“I could've been your everything
but you didn't have the courage
to love me in the way I needed”
Source: A Beautiful Composition of Broken
“I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.”
“I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“I could vomit, right this moment. I literally could vomit on cue. Yes. Here's the truth of that. We didn't have a big audience, obviously, when we made the show. Very early on, we made a decision that we were going to try to give the fans and the people that were loyal to us something that they felt was special.”
“I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.”
“I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.”
“I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.”
Source: Ellen Foster
“I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.”
“I could walk a mile in your shoes, but I already know they're just as uncomfortable as mine. Let's walk next to each other instead...”
“I could walk and swim at 10 months old.”