I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.”
“I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very much in idiom and am very interested in the play of different kinds of rhetoric, whether it is the more high-flown stuff that reeks of age. I love to juxtapose something like that with something more current or urgent. I am always interested not in America by itself, but America as an idea and how that idea has changed over time, in the eyes of the rest of the world and in the eyes of Americans.”
“I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.”
“I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.”
“I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.”
Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.”
“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”
Source: Heart Earth: A Memoir
“I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.”
“I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.”
“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“I am a yea-sayer.”
“I am a young guy, but I have a winning mentality.”
“I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria.”
“I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.”
“I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”
“I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?”
“I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel”
Source: Sabriel
“I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.”
Source: Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership
“I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.”
“I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.”
“I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”
Source: Poems
“I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.”
“I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.”
“I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.”
“I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitive people trying to express the ineffable. I don’t need to be a biblical literalist to love my God.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“I am able to stand above all supernatural powers. I was able, to show the world in the universe, what it was like, to give away an achievement in my familiar way.”
“I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.”
“I am about as detailed as a shadow.”
Source: Cruddy: A Novel
“I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.”
“I am about as relaxed a guy as it gets. I like sitting on my couch, watching shows, sitting by the fire pit. I like to play golf, but I don't have a chance to play it often. Playstation. Xbox, but I'm about as boring a guy as you'll ever meet. I could sit on this couch from the time the day starts to the time the day ends.”
“I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.”
“I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.”
“I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I'm lucky - not to have been a cover girl - but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it's still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I've earned is down to me, and no one else.”
“I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.”
“I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.”
“I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.”
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
Source: The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
“I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.”
Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
“I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.”
Source: Hippocrates
“I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.”
“I am about to impart to you the sacred words my father gave to me. It’s the five responses that will get you out of any female problem…I don’t know what you’re talking about. I didn’t do it. Baby, there’s no one else in my world but you. Oops. And Jesus is Lord. Not to mention you can combine them. Such as – I don’t know what you’re talking about, I didn’t do it, or Jesus is Lord, baby, you know there’s no one else in my world but you. (Jesse) (Simone opens the bathroom door.) Oops, Jesus is Lord. (Xypher)”
“I am about to learn what it's like to live here.”
“I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“I am about to reveal to you an arcane, unfathomable mystery that has never been whispered by mortal lips or displayed on the hallowed shelves where the venerable masters of science discuss their theories with uncompromising rigour. I am about to entrust you with a secret that will drastically alter your perception of existence, a knowledge so potent that upon its discovery, your human essence will resist its comprehension, fearful of the overwhelming luminosity and its permanence on this earthly plane; When, as if by magic, these words pass through the barrier of your heart and establish a link with your mind to revitalise your consciousness, it will be time to cast off the chains of moral slavery and tear your soul into a thousand fragments, allowing the divine light to recompose and transform it, Do you long to know the secret? Well, place your hand on the centre of your chest, inhale deeply at a slower than usual pace and whisper to your heart: "I AM FREE"--From The Devil's Writer”
Source: Talent for Horror: Homage to Edgard Allan Poe
“I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.”
Source: The Misfits
“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”
“I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.”