I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I don’t like San Francisco. I love it!”
“I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.”
“I don’t like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you. This is uncharted territory for me, but I need to know that at the end of the night, I have you to come home to.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”
“I don’t like the way he looks at you.” My stomach lurched. “What do you mean? How does he look at me?” “Like you’re not a student and he’s not a teacher.”
Source: House of Night Series
“I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.”
“I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.”
“I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.”
“I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.”
“I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.”
“I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.”
“I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.”
“I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.”
“I don’t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.”
“I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!”
“I don’t like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs.”
“I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the viewer’s interpretation. It’s very strange to pour your heart out onto canvas and then put it on display for the whole world to see.”
“I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.”
“I don’t like water. I drink Diet Coke. Nor do I smoke, or drink alcohol or even sip a café. I don’t look after myself. I don’t do yoga, Pilates, those things. I hate physical effort, I don’t run anywhere, but I am super-energetic. Make-up? I just black my eyes and that’s it. My hair? I get it cut on set (fashion shoots), I never go to a hairdresser. I’m not sure I’m French. You think I’m not smart enough?”
“I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.”
“I don’t like you in danger. When a man finds the only person of worth to him, that one person who matters more than anything and makes everything he’s ever seen or done or gone through worthwhile, believe me, Rikki, the urge to protect her is overwhelming. If that bothers you, then I’m sorry, because it’s going to be happening over and over throughout our years together.”
Source: Water Bound
“I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you”
“I don’t like your hair black. (Artemis) And I don’t like your head attached to your shoulders. Guess we can’t all have what we want, huh? (Acheron)”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.”
“I don’t look at myself as the mayor, I look at myself as just a normal, regular person.”
“I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.”
“I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.”
“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
“I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.”
“I don’t make sense yadda yadaaaaa”
“I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.”
“I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.”
Source: Wonder Boys
“I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed
“I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.”
Source: Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga
“I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“I don’t mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn’t a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.”
“I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.”
“I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.”
Source: In Dubious Battle
“I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl … And chicken wings.” Rylann turned her head and stared at him. “Did you really just compare me to chicken wings?” “You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb.”
Source: About That Night
“I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.”
Source: About That Night
“I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man’s story. The great directors I’ve talked to, I’ve said listen, I don’t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that’s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, because it’s just like being a prop.”
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
“I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.”
“I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her ever so slowly and gently. They don’t realize how very intelligent Rose really is. They’re just terrifically pleased with themselves. Look at me! they all but shout. See how broad-minded I am! How wonderfully progressive, how fantastically twentieth century!”
Source: Chime
“I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.”
“I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.”
“I don’t need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you’re in it.” He turned the corner and pulled up in front of the Crossfire behind the Bentley. He killed the engine, released his seat belt, and took a deep breath. “Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn’t before. I have a place now, with you.”
“I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)”
Source: The Dream-Hunter