I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.”
“I had carried the burden of believing that because I was able to write, sing, and produce my songs, become famous, and gain access to unimaginable wealth, I didn't deserve personal happiness too.”
“I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.”
“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
“I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.”
“I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.”
“I had changed since then. I had gained strength and size, and a beard that grew if I did not shave it away. But she was the same. Of course she was.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.”
Source: Cutting Class
“I had chosen a blind spot at the end of the plumbers’ shop to make my escape bid. Under my overalls I wore extra jeans, vest, t-shirt and I had a donkey jacket on that I intended to throw over the razor wire. Hopefully the extra clothes would stop the razor wire from cutting me.”
Source: Psycho Steve
“I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.”
Source: The Book of Negroes
“I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent loneliness. The suspects know each other. They may well be family or friends. But the detective is always the outsider. He asks the necessary questions but he doesn't actually form a relationship with anyone. He doesn't trust them, and they in turn are afraid of him. It's a relationship based entirely on deception and it's one that, ultimately, goes nowhere. Once the killer has been identified, the detective leaves and is never seen again. In fact, everyone is glad to see the back of him.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.”
“I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.”
“I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.”
“I had closed off from parts of myself many years before. And that kind of extreme disassociation only slowly bred a kind of hostility towards myself that was like a time bomb, and it had finally gone off, shattering everything I knew to be my life.”
Source: The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic
“I had co-written one episode of an animated show called Jem and the Holograms. Which at the time I didn't view as the start of a career, I viewed it as, "Hey, someone wants to pay me to write something, and I might get a TV credit, isn't that cool?" So I did it with my writing partner at the time, Cary Bates, and it was interesting but it didn't lead to anything and I didn't think too much about it.”
“I had come alive here...this was my home, and though one day it would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted exactly to me. A place I knew by heart. The one place in the world I'd been made for.”
Source: Circling the Sun
“I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.”
Source: Except the Lord: A Novel
“I had come full circle, from knowing nothing much about most everything at the start of my blind climb toward unimaginable heights to knowing nothing all over again and beginning to search for another trailhead on the mountain of wisdom.”
Source: Still Moving: a memoir
“I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.”
“I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.”
Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection
“I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.”
“I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.”
“I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.”
Source: Educated
“I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.”
Source: The Silver Door
“I had come to Europe looking to learn about love and life—and men.”
Source: The Voyeur's Yacht
“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”
Source: Lucy: A Novel
“I had come to love the space, and I could see why Lady Anna had too. The orchids were positively glorious. She'd tagged each flower with its proper botanical name, but I favored the pet names she'd given each bloom. For instance, a stunning pink 'Cattleya' was named "Lady Catalina." And a yellow 'Oncidium,' which to me looked like a flock of ladies in fluffy party dresses, was called "Lady Aralia of the Bayou.”
Source: The Last Camellia
“I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.”
“I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.”
“I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk; I saw blue-winged teal against the green waters at dawn. I had wanted to hear thunder rolling in the thousand-foot depths; I heard the guttural caw of four ravens…what any of us had come to see or do fell away. We found ourselves at each turn with what we had not imagined.”
Source: Crossing Open Ground
“I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.”
“I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.”
Source: The Secret Life of Girls
“I had come to the conclusion, that the principal alimentary matters might be reduced to the three great classes, namely the saccharine, the oily and the albuminous.”
“I had come to this city because I wanted
to disappear into its amorphous multitudes of people who didn’t know me. I wanted to be seen only when I chose to be seen.
Cities allowed you that, they took you in like quicksand and spat you out if they found you indigestible.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it...”
Source: Kitchen
“I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.”
“I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.”
“I had concerns about President Obama’s health and safety at the Desoto Solar Farm.”
“I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.”
“I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything.”
Source: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
“I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'”
“I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.”
“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
Source: David Copperfield
“I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.”
“I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.”
“I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.”
“I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.”