I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.”
“I do not understand why America fails to see that by continuing to make education at college level unaffordable, credit rating-dependent and student loans almost impossible to repay, it is obstructing tertiary education from its potential brightest and poorest, and killing their best prospects of attracting high-paying employment.”
“I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.”
“I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.”
“I do not understand why people will spend over $1,000 on a cell phone when the $50 models work well.”
“I do not understand why reading the Bible in public should make others feel uncomfortable . . . it may be such an example that serves to remind them of the Book they have neglected.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.”
“I do not understand you, I bang my head against you, but today I love you so much.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!”
“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
“I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.”
“I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.”
“I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.”
“I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.”
“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”
Source: Breath in the Dark
“I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.”
“I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem”
Source: Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991
“I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.”
“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”
“I do not wait for openings. Acting creates the proof others measure.”
“I do not wait till i am in trouble till i can call on God. I have learned to speak the way God speaks, I have learned to see things the way God sees and I have also learned to handle it the way God handles it. Christ is the daily language of my mouth and faith is my daily talk and my actions have become the language of my life.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.”
“I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.”
“I do not walk like a duck.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.”
“I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.”
“I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.”
Source: The Making of an American
“I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!”
“I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.”
“I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.”
“I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.”
“I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.”
“I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.”
“I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.”
“I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.”
“I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.”
“I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.”
“I do not want any guys to hit on me. Innocent flirting, fine -- it does wonders for my confidence -- but not douchebags.”
“I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.”
Source: Young India
“I do not want anything on this earth except the warmth of your pure love.”
“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”
Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism
“I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.”
“I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.”
Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952
“I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e. "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."”
“I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.”
“I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.”
“I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas