I Quotes
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“I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon. "That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“I didn't know you were Catholic.”
“I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.”
“I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.”
Source: Peony in Love
“I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.”
“I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.”
“I didn't know," he said. "I didn't know you needed me." Her voice shook. "I always need you”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.”
“I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'”
“I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.”
“I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.”
Source: On Getting Old for the First Time
“I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time.”
“I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.”
“I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.”
“I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.”
“I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.”
“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”
“I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.”
“I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.”
“I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."”
“I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.”
“I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.”
“I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.”
“I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.”
Source: The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat
“I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?”
Source: 'Tis Herself: An Autobiography
“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
“I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.”
“I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.”
“I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.”
“I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.”
“I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.”
Source: River Marked
“I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.”
“I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.”
“I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.”
“I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.”
“I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.”
“I didn't like doing predictions. It's certainly true that right now - and this could change tomorrow - but, right now there is no clear way for Putin to lose power. There seems little chance that a street revolution could unseat him; that's just not how things are going to work in Russia. And it seems as if the very tiny number of people who control the economy and who control politics in Russia are loyal to him.”
“I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.”
Source: Jane Campion: Interviews
“I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.”
“I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.”
“I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.”
“I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."”
“I didn't like men, but I liked women.”
“I didn't like most of my boyfriends. I'm a perfect example of somebody who will make it work no matter what. Like, I once had a guy move in with me. He was my least favorite. Nobody who went out with us knew that we were together. I just would not give off the vibe.”
“I didn't like mundane life.”
“I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.”
“I didn't like my mouth because I always felt like it was a sausage for a bottom lip, and I have an overbite, so I can't exactly close my mouth. It's really, really hard! But now I like it because it's kind of sultry, and it's my mouth. I should say I don't consider my bottom lip a sausage lip now - I like it, but I guess I grew into it. I definitely saved a couple hundred bucks instead of getting fillers.”
“I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.”