Top 100 Found Myself Quotes
#1. Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
Colin Fletcher
#2. When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.
Moby
#3. I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.
Dustin Hoffman
#4. There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.
Kurt Eichenwald
#5. I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run.
Soichiro Honda
#6. I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.
Geraldine Brooks
#7. I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.
John H Richardson
#8. Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
Oscar Wilde
#10. I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
Kate Winslet
#11. I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
Rachel Kushner
#12. I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
Tom Peters
#13. I was just a teen, eighteen I think. I just broke out of a thirteen year stint in the local educational prison when I found myself lost.
Bryan Higby
#14. I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.
Jo Walton
#15. I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
Ned Vizzini
#16. There was the moment-the moment I went back there for. That was the moment I knew that this man was going to change my life forever. Suddenly, I found myself wanting to change his.
Ella Frank
#17. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I'd envision his face.
Anne Rice
#18. I meditated upon it and found myself to be a riddle
Hermann Hesse
#19. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)
Kellie Elmore
#20. I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.
Ross Macdonald
#21. The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
Cicely Tyson
#22. I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.
Michael Easton
#23. I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.
Zachary Quinto
#24. This boy was so far out of my league it was embarrassing. I found myself staring at him, trying to find some minute flaw that might justify dragging him back to my level. Finding nothing, I decided that having a dimple on only one cheek was practically a deformity.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#25. Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.
Wynn Bullock
#26. I would have rather spent another night with a hungry belly than found myself satisfying the appetite of a wolf. Or a faerie. Not
Sarah J. Maas
#27. When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.
Floyd Skloot
#28. But instead of the end, I'm pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.
Daniel H. Wilson
#29. I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.
Bailee Madison
#30. His gaze was fixed so intently on me that, though I had been determined to look him in the eye as his equal, I found myself having to stare down at the corner of the table in order to stammer out a word.
Karen Maitland
#31. When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.
Roger Deakins
#32. I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.
Frank Gehry
#33. I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along the frenetic edges of my mind. The Sandman was nowhere to be found, as i slipped further away from sleep.
Jaeda DeWalt
#34. At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#35. My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.
Rankin
#36. I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to. (page 8)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#37. The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.
Noah Levine
#38. It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#39. I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
Michael East
#40. I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.
Jennifer Nettles
#41. I just happened to be in the neighborhood, walking my dog ... " This was sounding lame. "Several miles from my home,in the middle of the night,in the snow.And I found myself in your backyard."
His eyes flew open. "With the cats?"
"If that's what you call them.
Jennifer Echols
#42. Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
Trisha Yearwood
#43. I lost a lot of people when I found myself.
Nikki Rowe
#44. I was looking for a job, david. I was walking up and down that bloody street and I had gone into a lot of stores. I remember I was really cold and it was really windy and then Ijust found myself standing on the top step. Then I went in, nothing special.
P.B. Morlen
#45. The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
Arthur Smith
#46. In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
Joe Scarborough
#47. I found myself answering the same questions asked frequently of me by different people. It would be so much easier if everyone could just read my database.
Tim Berners-Lee
#48. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
Mary Szybist
#49. I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
Lynda Barry
#50. My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again
Jim Croce
#51. When she smiled, the world smiled with her, and more than once, I found myself wishing I was the man she deserved to be with, the one she had come to Italy to find.
R.S. Grey
#52. I think it is such a privilege to give a baby its first home inside your body. [After the pregnancy was over] I found myself massaging my stomach gently. I miss him being in my body
stretching, hiccupping even. It was a wonderful, deep, loving, fulfilling feeling.
Celine Dion
#53. Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals.
Mark Boal
#54. Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.
Kendrick Lamar
#55. The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception,
Jeff Lindsay
#56. I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
Dennis Quaid
#57. As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
Orlando Bloom
#58. His other arm slid around me and suddenly I found myself, after midnight, in my apartment, dancing with Chace Keaton. It
Kristen Ashley
#59. So I do what I always vowed not to do, and always found myself doing anyway. I throw "I miss you" into the breach. It even feels empty to me. Like I'm not saying it to the right person.
David Levithan
#60. Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS. I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.
John Green
#61. I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance.
I know now, this is who I really am.
Jared Leto
#62. Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.
James Nesbitt
#63. What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.
Danny Pintauro
#64. But the intimacy, the smallness, also made me feel shut out; and I found myself hurrying past the inviting little doorways with my head down, very aware of all the convivial Sunday-morning lives unrolling around me in private.
Donna Tartt
#65. In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.
Louis MacNeice
#66. During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.
Ray William Johnson
#67. I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.
Charles Dickens
#68. I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.
Gary Louris
#69. I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.
Princess Diana
#70. I found myself in the dark, found her in the dark. I found light and truth in the darkness, hiding there where I couldn't see, right in front of me the whole time. And all I had to do was reach out and touch her.
Staci Hart
#71. How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win.
Barbara Trapido
#72. As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.
Jerry Saltz
#73. At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost ...
Dante Alighieri
#75. I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].
Damien Rice
#76. I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.
Paul Theroux
#78. If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.
Moby
#79. ... I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.
Stephenie Meyer
#80. When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
Aleksandar Hemon
#81. Well, what's the point of being a rock star if I can't bang the groupies?"
Rolling my eyes, I found myself muttering, "I thought it was supposed to be about the music?"
Griffin, unfortunately, heard y sullen comment and chose to respond to it. "No, no, I'm pretty sure it's the pussy.
S.C. Stephens
#82. ... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)...
Antonin Artaud
#83. Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying across the sky. I released the precious glass ball, not even glancing down to see it shatter.
Embee
#84. I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.
Charlotte Bronte
#85. Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
Terry Zwigoff
#86. I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
Moby
#87. swept throughout my body, and I found myself falling prey to Beau's animalistic urges.
Alexis Ayres
#88. I found myself praying: May I love and accept myself just as I am.
Tara Brach
#89. With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.
Michael Douglas
#90. I've heard people say that they lose themselves in a kiss. But in that moment, it was the opposite for me. I felt like I found myself. Not how I wished I was, or who I was afraid I was becoming, but who I really was.
Jon Skovron
#91. When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.
Meghan O'Rourke
#92. Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.
Roma Downey
#93. Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
Gail Sheehy
#94. Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
Ben Carson
#95. The thought balloon of my own breath said, How have I found myself here?
Lorrie Moore
#96. Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Dante Alighieri
#97. I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James W. Black
#98. After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.
Nick Harkaway
#99. It's worth all the pain,
Now that I found myself back in your arms again.
James Reid
#100. I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about Barton Fink, because my agent said the brothers were in London. We hit it off immediately, and suddenly I found myself on the way to America!
Roger Deakins
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