Top 100 In My Quotes
#1. I can't help it. All I want to do is sleep, hide under the soft protection of the covers, and I know it isn't healthy. I know this, and yet I can't stop doing it. I've pushed Ethan away, ignoring the pain in his eyes. Ignoring everything, even the thoughts in my head.
Kristen Callihan
#2. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.
Mary E. Pearson
#3. I'm not working class anymore,' he said. 'I'm lower-middle. I use three types of oil in my kitchen. Admittedly one of them is WD-40, but that counts, doesn't it?
Christopher Fowler
#4. I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
Rufus Wainwright
#5. So be it. In my mind the beginning of a life, especially if it seems destined to be a challenging one, deserves the most promising name you can come up with. A beginning kind of name. Like Dawn, Or Hope. Or Aurora.
Sarah Weeks
#6. You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
Erica Jong
#7. The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.
Jill Briscoe
#8. When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.
Justina Machado
#9. I long for him most
during these hot moonless nights.
I lie awake, hot,
the growing fires of passion
bursting, blazing in my heart.
Ono No Komachi
#11. Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.
Anne Michaels
#12. I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.
Emily Procter
#13. In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
Danny McBride
#14. Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
Simone De Beauvoir
#15. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
Isabel Allende
#16. Chicago will forever be in my heart," she said. "It is the Paris of the Middle West.
Graham Moore
#17. If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry.
Addis de Valence
Madeline Hunter
#18. I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
Gunther Schuller
#19. I am thankful for those difficult people in my life, they showed me exactly who not to be.
Anonymous
#20. Each time I thought of him, something warm would heat up the pit of my stomach and excitement would flutter in my chest. I didn't yet know what to make of any of it but one thing was for sure; I didn't like it.
O.E. Boroni
#21. Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#22. In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.
Neil Young
#23. I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
Larry Wall
#24. I'll drive you home."
"On your white horse?"
"In my red truck.
Rainbow Rowell
#25. if a house
does not
automatically
make a home,
then a body
doesn't
automatically
make a home
either.
-i've always felt like a stranger in my skin.
Amanda Lovelace
#26. I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.
Lyle Lovett
#27. I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.
Pete Doherty
#28. There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
Candace Bushnell
#29. This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
Karl Marx
#30. I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.
Shirley Manson
#31. I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc
David Brainerd
#32. I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.
Max Von Sydow
#33. We clinked glasses. I took a sip. The tiny bubbles melted in my mouth and journeyed northward into my brain. Sweet.
John Green
#34. The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
Andre Kertesz
#35. I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
Roz Chast
#36. In my times of greatest despair and anguish I look up towards the heavens and find my constant relief. For I know in my heart and soul that it is God that I receive my help from.
Timothy Pina
#37. People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.
Mandy Moore
#38. I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#39. Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.
Karen Marie Moning
#40. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
William Westmoreland
#42. In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.
Daniel H. Pink
#43. Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
Michael Moore
#44. I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.
Clay Matthews III
#45. I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.
Ryan Lochte
#47. A lot of nudity in my early movies was out of necessity. When I came out to Hollywood, I didn't know anybody, I didn't have any connections. I did what a lot of people have to do in the real world, and just work up from the bottom.
Amber Heard
#48. I was absolutely speechless. The most beautiful man I had ever seen ... IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, just said I was beautiful. I blushed when the reality hit me, and boy, did it hit me hard.
J.L. McCoy
#49. I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
Kenzo Tange
#50. What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
Charles A. Dana
#51. There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
George R R Martin
#52. I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
Arundhati Roy
#53. The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.
Diane Chamberlain
#54. Where's your trident? I've only seen mermen with a trident that looks like a pitchfork," asked Alden.
"New technology. I upgraded last year to a disc implanted under the skin in my right hand. I don't miss having to carry that clumsy thing. Kept dropping it.
L.R.W. Lee
#55. I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.
Ethan Coen
#56. I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#57. Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?
Alan E. Nelson
#58. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At
Jodi Picoult
#59. Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.
Alanis Morissette
#60. I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question.
Sergio Aguero
#61. In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.
Scott Clifton
#62. At one point in my life you'll have my best but not my whole.
Peter Adejimi
#63. There have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.
Jane Goodall
#64. Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#65. I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.
Miranda Lambert
#66. The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.
John Knowles
#67. Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep.
Akshay Vasu
#68. I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.
Elizabeth Scott
#69. I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.
Jennifer Lynch
#70. In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!
Dr. Seuss
#71. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
Ben Casnocha
#72. In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
Brunello Cucinelli
#73. My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
Haley Reinhart
#74. I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
John Henry Mackay
#75. She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.
Marilynne Robinson
#76. I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.
Mark Indelicato
#77. I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
Paula Cole
#78. In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#80. I had no doubt in my mind that I loved Alice (Tom Ward).
Joseph Delaney
#81. If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.
Franklyn Ajaye
#82. I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
Daniel Tammet
#83. I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.
Mink Stole
#84. Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
#85. Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.
Scott Bradfield
#86. Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard
George Matheson
#87. I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
Edie Falco
#88. In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.
James E. Faust
#89. I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.
Robert Black
#90. We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"
Douglas Rushkoff
#91. Hope is a pocket of possibility.
I'm holding it in my hand.
Tahereh Mafi
#93. Any who stand in my way shall be cut down!
Cao Cao
#94. I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!
Eli Roth
#95. No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.
Amanda Seyfried
#96. I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
Laurie Graham
#97. Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favor of unnatural things.'
Vetinari looked perplexed. 'You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?
Terry Pratchett
#98. You still may die in the Dregs."
Inej's dark eyes had glinted. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand.
Leigh Bardugo
#99. You didn't think you could escape us that easily, did you?" a deep menacing voice taunted in my ear. "I told you that you were the one I was looking for.
Brynn Myers
#100. I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
Ian MacKaye
