I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am attacked equally by the hard right and the hard left for expressing what they regard as politically incorrect views. I thrive on such controversy and welcome it. It only encourages me to speak out more. I have not been affected by attacks on me for defending freedom of speech and due process.”
“I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.”
“I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.”
“I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.”
Source: My Life and Music
“I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.”
“I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary.”
“I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.”
“I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.”
“I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.”
“I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.”
“I am attracted to humility, while arrogance repels me.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.”
“I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.”
“I am attracted to myths.”
“I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.”
“I am attracted to the dark side of life!”
“I am attracted to the diversity of different characters. I like doing things that test the boundaries of character and genres, outside the comfort zone.”
“I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.”
“I am authentic
I live in harmony with who I am
I am true to my nature”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“I am autistic. It is who I am. Saying I’m a person with autism is like saying you’re a person with gay”
“I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.”
“I am available for children's parties, by the way.”
Source: Love All the People (New Edition)
“I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.”
“I am available to make mistakes, I only prefer to make new ones.”
“I am available to more good than I have ever experienced, imagined, or realized before in my life.”
“I am available to work in the police body camera department...but I will not be signing a non-disclosure agreement!”
“I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder”
Source: These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993
“I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.”
Source: Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions
“I am awake a lot of nights.”
“i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.”
Source: you are safe here.
“I am awake, I might as well be drinking”
“I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.”
“I am awakened each dawn
Increasingly to fear.”
“I am awakener.”
“I am aware from experience that the weight of secrets is a burden that has the potential to become lighter when we can find a safe place to share. It’s intriguing to me to notice how many people tell me one of their parents also lives with mental health challenges when I share my story. Sharing our stories connects us at the level of authenticity, which has the potential to dispel the feeling of being isolated and alone.”
Source: The Mended Mirror: Reflections On Life: Wholeness In Brokenness
“I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.”
“I am aware I sound like a Marxist Victor Meldrew but, guess what, I'm over 50 and I don't give a fuck.”
Source: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent
“I am aware of at least 4 professional astronomy workers that suffered health crashes approximately 14 years after their first exposure to the 13,797’ very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea. It killed two of them and the third almost died. I call this process ‘Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications’.”
“I am aware of at least three people that changed gender during their time in high altitude astronomy.”
“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
“I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter”
“I am aware of existing in a nearly constant state of inner turmoil and argument. I become frustrated with my work when the solution to a creative impasse seems like a secret I don't want to tell myself. It's not that I lose faith in my work - I'm fairly certain the answers are there, but much of my energy is spent beating my psyche into revealing them.”
“I am aware of my alternate worlds,” I said. “I am aware that I may have bits of my personality organized into neat little packages called Ian, Angel, and Erik. And the psycho addiction I have to my cats...”
Source: Broken
“I am aware of my heart, my mistakes, and my sins, and I will be free when the moon shines on my dark soul.”
“I am aware of my madness and what I need is someone else to see the beauty in my madness.”
Source: Ink Bleeder
“I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.”
“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”
Source: We
“I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal.”
“I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.”