I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I go by Ambrosius, Wild Man of the Woods, and Son of the Devil. Call me what you want, but I am Merlin." - Merlin”
Source: The Camelot Kids Complete Collection
“I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.”
“I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.”
“I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.”
“I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!”
“I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them with a minimum of direction, and you just let the music happen. I've seen it work time and time again.”
“I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].”
“I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.”
“I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.”
“I go crazy trying to energize people, 'cause that's what I am. I'm a battery. If you're down, you can plug into me and get charged up.”
“I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.”
“I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.”
“I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.”
“I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.”
“I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.”
“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to beige. But when I look again, cream is next to green is next to black. A tall book shelters a small book, a huge Folio bullies a cowering line of Quartos. A child's nursery rhyme book does not have the language in which to speak to a Latin dictionary. Chaucer does not know the words in which Henry James communicates but here they are forced to live together, forever speechless.”
Source: Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
“I go downstairs to my bedroom and get out my diary from where I’ve hidden it in the wardrobe under my jumpers.
I write, ‘My mother has a secret.”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.”
“I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.”
“I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.”
“I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.”
“I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self”
“I go fishing for reasons other than catching fish.”
Source: Fly Fishing: Fennel's Journal No. 5
“I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.”
Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
“I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.”
“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.”
“I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.”
“I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.”
“I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.”
“I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'”
“I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.”
“I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.”
“I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.”
“I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.”
“I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.”
“I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.”
“I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.”
“I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.”
“I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.”
“I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.”
“I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.”
“I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?”
Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government
“I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way.”
“I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.”
“I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.”
“I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.”