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 usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.”
“I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)”
Source: Born of Fire
“I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.”
“I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.”
“I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.” He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded. “See? It hurts people.”
“I don’t want any of the things that I fear to happen, but this I know, if they do, my God will take care of me.”
“I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.”
“I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.”
“I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“I don’t want friends to die...or fade away. I don’t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.”
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi
“I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.”
“I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be a girl or a boy. I want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.”
“I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.”
“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”
“I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)”
“I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.”
“I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.”
“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”
“I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.”
“I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.”
“I don’t want to achieve my dream. I just want to pursue my dream until I die.”
“I don’t want to be a lonely governor.”
“I don’t want to be a mentor in my bedroom.”
“I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.”
“I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
“I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.”
“I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.”
“I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.”
“I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.”
“I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.”
“I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.”
“I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.”
Source: Loose Girl
“I don’t want to be like her, like Vivian. I don’t want to hurt anyone. Am I going to hurt people?” “No one can make you do that, child. You are caught between two worlds, much like my own Lend. You will want the fire, you will want to be filled. It is your nature. I hope you do not fall, but she is much stronger than you are.” She smiled at me, reaching out as though she would wipe away my tears. “Cling to what is good in your life. Be good to my son.”
“I don’t want to be Nephilim,” said Jace. “I want to be something else. Stronger, faster, better than human. But different. Not subservient to the Laws of an angel who couldn’t care less about us. Free.” He ran his hand through a curl of her hair. “I’m happy now, Clary. Doesn’t that make a difference?”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.”
“I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.”
Source: Confessions of a Public Speaker
“I don’t want to be rude, but I’m not that social. When I say, “I never go out,” I mean, “I never go out.””
“I don’t want to be seen smiling, having fun, or eating.”
“I don’t want to be special. I don’t want to look special. I’m happy with just ‘me’”
“I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.”
Source: Where She Went
“I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.”
“I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.”
“I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.”
“I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.”
“I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this.”
“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“I don’t want to feel anything for you, Dante” “God, Tess. I don’t want to feel anything for you either.”