I Can Quotes - Page 13

• What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  First Love, Surfing, Firsts

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• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  Utada Hikaru

  Fame, Enjoy, Being Famous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Luxury, People, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

  Brian May

  Swimming, Garden, Lucky

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• From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Garden, Competition, Singers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

  Nicole Malachowski

  Jobs, Women, Air

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• I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Parent, Remember

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• Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.

  David Foster Wallace

  People, Bored, Frustrated

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.

  Paul Gleason

  Change, Pride, Science

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• I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

  John Berger

  Art, Revenge, Past

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage

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• I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Giving, Poor

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• No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.

  Lily Tomlin

  Cynical, Matter

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• Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Sex, Believe

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.

  Sappho

  Love, Crush, Fall

  Fragment 2

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• Parents who have fought fiercely for the rights of their much-loved Gay and Lesbian children should not have to worry that their children will be treated differently. As a mother, I can tell you that there is no prouder moment than watching your children grow up, fall in love, and commit to that love in front of their families and friends. I want that same joy for every parent and every child.

  Christine Gregoire

  Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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• I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Rain, Apples

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• I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

  Gore Vidal

  Love, Sex, Dating

  "The Moronic Inferno". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'.

  Jimmy Carr

  Sex, Tunnels, Phones

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• I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

  Joe Tye

  Adversity, Compassion, Choices

  Joe Tye (1997). “Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance”

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• I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

  Plato

  Art, Plato, Numbers

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• How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

  Jason Bishop

  Motivational, Sports, Quitting

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• In college I took a class from a professor who changed my whole life. I can't really remember what his name was, or what the class was, or even which college it was, but I found that if you sit behind a really tall guy and kind of slouch down in your chair you can drink Scotch right from the bottle and not get caught.

  Bill Ervin

  College, Scotch, Class

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• Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

  Carrie Snow

  Funny, Men, Married

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• How many things I can do without!

  Socrates

  Life, Money, Possession

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

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