I Can Quotes (page 9)

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• my mother
• friend
• colorful

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros? George R. R. Martin

• hurt
• older
• pretend

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts. Pete Townshend

• time
• spiritual
• world

Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections? Herman Melville

• boys
• painting
• bird

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski

• you me
• see
• probability

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has. Jeffrey Eugenides

• she
• hand
• saying

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke."Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say. Lewis Carroll

• happy
• doctor
• believe

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. Katherine Dunn

• love
• perfume
• liked

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Arthur Miller

• life
• work
• inspirational

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. Terry McMillan

• time
• women
• she

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered? Angelina Grimke

• cause
• simply
• causing

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly. Billy Gibbons

• self
• elegance
• served

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? Ralph Waldo Emerson

• giving
• beauty
• hope

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does. Viola Davis

• kindness
• imagination
• female

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. Mark Davis

• thinking
• road
• right road

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? Vernon Howard