I Quotes
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“I do not remember the most challenging one but I remember that many of the titles I have recorded have been quite challenging for me.”
“I do not remember too much now. Certain things. Certain images. All sorts of irrational, irrational because nonsensically inappropriate, pieces of information stream through my head, as if my unconscious were bombarding me with words and phrases, an enemy agent subverting a radio broadcast.”
Source: In the Cut
“I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.”
“I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.”
“I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.”
“I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.”
“I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.”
“I do not respect you, and I will never let you have any of my fossil fish”
Source: Remarkable Creatures
“I do not respond well to fraudulent systems of employee protection.”
“I do not reward bad behavior.”
“I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.”
“I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.”
“I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.”
“I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.”
“I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.”
“I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.”
“I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.”
“I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“I do not say anything from jealousy.”
“I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.”
Source: Sabbath's Theater
“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.”
“I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.”
“I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.”
Source: The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
“I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.”
“I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.”
“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams
“I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.”
Source: Indiscretion
“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.”
“I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.”
Source: By Pike and Dyke
“I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.”
“I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.”
Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”
“I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.”
Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume
“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”
Source: Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories
“I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
“I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.”
Source: Goput de la BeautGe. English
“I do not say words, which you want to hear.
The words just told me, to write them down.”
“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”
“I do not search a true friend and true love; I practice, becoming a true friend, and give real love.”
“I do not search for a true friend and true love; I practice becoming a true friend and giving real love.”
“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.”
“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.”
“I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated
“I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.”
Source: Strong opinions
“I do not see any morality in believing that your sins have been taken away on the cross, or from those who advise their followers to do whatever they want in life.”
Source: Sinless
“I do not see any numbers or anything; I only see some letters in bold letters that look like YOU.”
“I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill