I Stayed Quotes

#1. I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.

Paul Weller

#2. It stayed there because, honey, I've never stopped loving you. In my heart, you are my wife and always will be. ~Carlos & Maddie

Bernadette Marie

#3. I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Don Cornelius

#4. I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Carl Sandburg

#5. I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

William Bell

#6. I'm surprised you stayed," I admitted to him. I had sort of been expecting him to bolt. "I'm never leaving.

Jessica Florence

#7. Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Diego Luna

#8. I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Nelson Mandela

#9. Jason managed a weak smile. At least it wasn't a head injury this time. I stayed conscious the entire fight.

Rick Riordan

#10. I pissed off Quinn, and probably chased her into the arms of a psychopath. Oh, and I made out with another guy. It's a miracle our clothes stayed on.

Brigid Kemmerer

#11. You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

Holt McCallany

#12. was just bad-tempered. I stayed

Grace Greene

#13. Now I appreciate that for those of you who have stayed with me this far, there's nothing too surprising about this romantic development. You probably saw it coming. But I didn't

James Patterson

#14. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

Bobby Fischer

#15. My fear is that, had I stayed in Jersey, I would have become Snooki because I'm just a bottle of hair dye away.

Melissa Rauch

#16. Oh, and I spend a lot of time on The Walking Dead reddit. Too much time. Last night I stayed up until two a.m. arguing with some neckbeard about whether or not you could kill a zombie with another zombie's spinal column.

Sierra Simone

#17. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

Katie McGarry

#18. I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.

Kylie Bax

#19. A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

Brenda Holloway

#20. And you let me leave. And then wish I'd stayed. And you almost killed me. But I didn't die.

Pleasefindthis

#21. He just stared at me, his eyes shining blank circles, and seemed to know exactly who it was, standing behind the juniper bushes. But he stayed quiet. He was a good dog. And I loved him.

Matt Haig

#22. I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

Dat Phan

#23. I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

Jerry Rubin

#24. First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

LaToya London

#25. I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin.

Katie McGrath

#26. Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Jeffrey Archer

#27. When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

Lou Reed

#28. I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

Al McGuire

#29. I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

Drew Barrymore

#30. I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Kevin Hart

#31. It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years; it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.

Claes Oldenburg

#32. That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.

Peter Jurasik

#33. I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

Sharon Creech

#34. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

Iris Murdoch

#35. There have been some ups and downs, but I'm happy that I've stayed fairly consistent.

Evan Longoria

#36. I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.

Damien Hirst

#37. I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

Ellen Klages

#38. Thailand's been good. Mike Swick and his camp there have been awesome. I initially went there on the 12th week and was going to finish my camp here for the last eight weeks but instead I just stayed the whole time.

Soa Palelei

#39. I should have stayed by Jill's side. That was my job, right?

Richelle Mead

#40. Etho thought about the last ten orbits of the sun and looked at Guude, "I should have stayed in the forest.

Stampy Miner

#41. For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

Pablo Picasso

#42. I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.

Rabih Alameddine

#43. I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

John Lee Hooker

#44. If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

Rosa Parks

#45. They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

Horace Silver

#46. Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

Carrie Prejean

#47. I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

Toby Jones

#48. Key Largo ... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Claire Trevor

#49. I kept my whole life in suitcase,
Never really stayed in one place,
Maybe that's the way it should be,
You know I live my life like a gypsy.

Shinedown

#50. I knew an Ethersworn monk once, who made it a practice to believe six impossible things before breakfast; if he could manage only five, he stayed in bed.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#51. People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.

Marnie Stern

#52. Yeah, sure. That's what you think." She sounds a little sad when she says it. A boy hasn't looked Mitzi in the eyes for years. Their eyes stayed glued to her chest. "I'll be her boyfriend noticed you or something like that. But if that's what happened, you're done.

Meg Medina

#53. I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

Sally Brampton

#54. I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.

Tom Stoppard

#55. I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.

Linda Evangelista

#56. I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

Lauren Weisberger

#57. I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Gillian Flynn

#58. There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasn't sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before I'd given him a chance to show him what it was like to ride out the storm.

Shelly Crane

#59. When I finally got to sleep I found Edmond and told him everything that happened, and he stayed with me for hours and whether I was dreaming or just borderline schizophrenic I didn't know and didn't care either. At

Meg Rosoff

#60. If I leaned toward him, something would happen. I was sure of it. But if I leaned away, nothing would happen. So I stayed perfectly still, balanced between something and nothing, not knowing which way I wanted to fall.

Julianne Donaldson

#61. You own a dress that won't make my dick get hard?"
Her eyes got squinty, but her mouth stayed closed.
"Can I take that as a no?" he pushed.
"FYI, women don't like it when men talk like that, Benny Bianchi."
"Bullshit, Francesca Concetti. They fuckin' love that shit.

Kristen Ashley

#62. To fly into Moscow was a joy. I was trying to understand what people were thinking and how to earn money. In the end, I stayed.

Suleyman Kerimov

#63. She was so oblivious that she stayed up nights worrying that I was going to get myself pregnant. There was no way to tell her the only way that was going to happen was if God himself knocked me up.

David Levithan

#64. With each passing minute, I expected her to walk away, and every minute she stayed in my arms felt like a miracle.

Jamie McGuire

#65. I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.
Eating and crying.
Crying and eating.

Matt De La Pena

#66. I have never seen a
man break the way he did. And he broke. Set half the damn Covenant on fire. If his brother hadn't
showed up when he had, I'm positive that he would've stayed in the burning building. Is that what you
wanted to know? Did it make you feel better, Alexandria?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#67. I'm a big believer in the system, but I just don't think we follow our own system and laws very well. I think ultimately we'll see the system collapse. Because no system has ever stayed around forever.

Matt Lindland

#68. I have often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.

Terry Gou

#69. The tear stayed in her eye, never falling down her cheek, and then the left side of her mouth crept up into a half-smile. This was my mom. She would come home to us again.
-If I Know It's Coming

Nick Hupton

#70. If I stay another day, I'll be here for another year. And if I stayed another year, I'll never leave.

Paulo Coelho

#71. If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

Jose Mourinho

#72. What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Annie Leibovitz

#73. So Ame stayed home like a good girl, and I snuck out like a bad one. I already longed for a good book and my quilt.

Gwen Hayes

#74. I'm a terrible person. I should have stayed in college. I should have gone skydiving while I had the chance. I should have gone swimming with dolphins. I should have seen The Spice Girls perform on their reunion tour!

Jillianne Hamilton

#75. I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone
I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

Veronica Roth

#76. Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

John Burnham Schwartz

#77. Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Julie Christie

#78. We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.

Clara Bow

#79. I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Michael Spiller

#80. I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

LeRoy Neiman

#81. Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

Reggie Bush

#82. I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

James McAvoy

#83. I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

Wynonna Judd

#84. I always take an Alastair Sawday guide. I stayed in three or four places in India that they had recommended, and every one of them was wonderful.

Diana Quick

#85. I'd spent the past six months trying not to think about all that had happened last fall. To have it all read out to me in Dad's emotionless voice ... well,let's just say I was beginning to wish I'd stayed in the pond.

Rachel Hawkins

#86. I kept getting older while he stayed young, my tiny husband.

Miranda July

#87. I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

Al Yankovic

#88. Daemon had not stayed.
My smile slipped from my face.
He was standing by the window, his back to me. "I got bored."
"I wasn't even gone five minutes."
"I have a short attention span.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#89. You killed Rice Wheeler," he said, "the Panhandle gunman. "He should have stayed in the Panhandle," I said.

Louis L'Amour

#90. When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Linda Grant

#91. The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go.

Alexandra Bracken

#92. I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.

Mitt Romney

#93. I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself.

Sylvia Day

#94. I was a good kid, but I've had one Achilles' heel that's stayed with me through the years: talking. I simply could not shut the fuck up-I still can't and that small issue has gotten me in all sorts of trouble.

Andy Cohen

#95. You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

Rafael Nadal

#96. I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

Amy Sedaris

#97. A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#98. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,
while my brain was dark and full

Tina J. Richardson

#99. It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#100. It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."

Jim Gaffigan