I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I had to choose between getting burned by my father, the sun, relentlessly burning and leaving me burnt. Too hurt, too scorching & overbearing. Or, staying in the black hole of my mother, aborning everything its path. I chose the latter because I thought the last thing she would corrupt is her own daughter…Perhaps one day I will escape this madness and find a planet to sit on, and spin on its rings to watch the stars. I will be free in my own space and watch them, my parents, explode.”
Source: Brown Clay
“I had to choose between you or me. I chose you.” Pixie Rae was glowering at me like she was holding a baseball bat to bullies. That was my girl. The no shit taking bad ass that somehow taught the world to be better for her.”
Source: Drowning in Stars
“I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.”
“I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it's become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.”
“I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, more soulful beauty and clarity like an oasis in the desert. From that place of clarity, a vision of what I could have, what I could do, who I could be has emerged if I allow my heart to become a place of compassion, acceptance and forgiveness.”
Source: Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“I had to climb out of the hurt, the loss seemingly tethering itself around me pulling me deeper into the pain. It was in that moment that I felt my heart rise up and put an end to the suffering so I could finally be free.”
“I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.”
“I had to come out on stage with my little staff and robe and I had this sun on top of my head that my mom made - that was the first time I was ever on stage singing in front of anybody. I realized that I was one of the best acts of the night but I didn't give singing much thought after that. I was really into playing baseball.”
“I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.”
“I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.”
“I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.”
“I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.”
“I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.”
“I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.”
“I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.”
“I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction
“I had to create some good work habits and attitude.”
“I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.”
“I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.”
“I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.”
“I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.”
“I had to deal with death at a really young age.”
“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
Source: A Man Who is Not a Man
“I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.”
“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”
“I had to defend myself because I was tired of hurting and being bullied.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.”
“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.”
“I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.”
“I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.”
“I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.”
“I had to do a lot of work and allow myself to go places that were a little scary. You know when you play a guy like that it allows you the freedom to explore really weird parts about you. And it's OK. In order to really get it, I've got to allow myself to go there.”
“I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.”
“I had to do a whole entire two page--both front side and back--of exponets. finding the product and finding the quotient. My brain has never stopped functioning that quick in the span of one second. Didn't even need to pick up the pencil, the paper(s) itself sparked fear into my soul”
“I had to do some emergency cram sessions with the dialogue coach on set [of the Punisher: War Zone]. But it was fun, because every actor on that movie had to do an accent, so we were all talking the whole time in our accents.”
“I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them - asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking.
My body replied, only after eating every bite of food: "No deal, babe.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I had to do something, not to be bored.”
“I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.”
“I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.”
Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love: Number 5 in series
“I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.”
“I had to do that. At least once.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.”
“I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.”
“I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.”
“I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.”
“I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.”
“I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.”
“I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.”
“I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.”
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America