I Quotes
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“I couldn't imagine a home without animals.”
“I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.”
“I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.”
“I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.”
“I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.”
Source: Walking Disaster: A Novel
“I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.”
“I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.”
“I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.”
“I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.”
“I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'”
“I couldn't imagine not having clean water.”
“I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.”
Source: Nothing But Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way
“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
Source: White Oleander
“I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring”
“I couldn't imagine recording a track and not being able to perform it.”
“I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.”
“I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face.”
“I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.”
“I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.”
Source: Lock and Key
“I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.”
“I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.”
“I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.”
“I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.”
“I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets, who ran to me worried that i was hurt if I asked for him. A month ago, I had looked at the TV and seen a stiff, distant, boring person-someone I couldn't imagine anyone loving. And while he wasn't anything close to the person I did love, he was worthy of having someone to love in his life.”
“I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.”
“I couldn't kill a fly.”
“I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it.”
“I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.”
“I couldn't let how the team was doing affect my mindset on my rehabilitation because I sort of believe I had to take it upon myself that my rehabilitation and getting myself 100 percent healthy had to be first and foremost, before the team, in my mind.”
“I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.”
“I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.”
“I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.”
“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
“I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.”
“I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.”
Source: Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob
“I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.”
“I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.”
“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.”
“I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.”
“I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.”
“I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.”
“I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.”
“I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.”
“I couldn't look at you and breath at the same time.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.”