I Kept Quotes
411 I Kept quotes by 356 unique authors
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It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use…
— Ryan Reynolds
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'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle…
— Josh Turner
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
— Jacki Weaver
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with…
— Barry White
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Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl…
— Esther Williams
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I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.
— Steven Wright
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I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it…
— Steven Wright
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Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept…
— Franz Kafka
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing…
— Paul Auster
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I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s…
— Barack Obama
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I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love…
— Margaret Mitchell
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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
— Amy Tan
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My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months…
— Sarah Dessen
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While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that…
— Henri Nouwen
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I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.
— Steven Wright
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I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept…
— Anton Chekhov
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The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did…
— Willa Cather
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I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
— Barbara Pym
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I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I…
— Unknown Author
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I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed…
— Nicholas Sparks
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If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is…
— Stephen King
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it…
— Roberto Bolano
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Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon…
— Claudia Gray
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These I Kept Quotes
356 authors contributed a total of 411 I Kept Quotes, led by these top contributors: