I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have always loved too much,
or not enough.”
Source: What we carry: poems
“I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.”
“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.”
“I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.”
“I have always loved you," he said. "I never stopped, not for one moment, from that day to this.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“I have always loved you.”
Source: Terrorism Subdues Now Save the Planet
“I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.”
Source: Invasion of the Sea
“I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.”
“I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.”
“I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.”
“I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.”
“I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.”
“I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.”
“I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.”
“I have always maintained that a man can be as good or bad depending upon his life-partner.”
“I have always maintained that genuine intellectuals, by definition, refuse to play any institutional games at any stage of their career or intellectual life. They can’t pretend to unsee once they see.”
“I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.”
“I have always maintained that if you work hard, it wont go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.”
“I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.”
“I have always maintained that paradigm shift away from signing Rock and Metal acts is part of the decline in sales the major labels have talked about for years. I mean, to me, that should be so obvious. For decades, literally, as long as Rock N' Roll has existed, a large swath of major label income came from Rock, and later, Metal bands. So if you essentially stop signing the thing that brought in a significant portion of your income, how are you confused when you don't sell as much? It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I still don't get it.”
“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.”
“I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.”
Source: No Name: A Novel
“I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.”
“I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.”
“I have always maintained the importance of Aunts”
Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.”
“I have always mistrusted the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants," because although I respect and pay homage to the brilliance and resilience of my ancestors, I'm fairly certain that they were not giants, but as powerful and as vulnerable as I am.”
“I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.”
Source: Literary Occasions: Essays
“I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.”
Source: Recollections: the French Revolution of 1848
“I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.”
Source: A Fortune to Share
“I have always noticed that any kind of pressure narrows my awareness and stunts my curiosity, because once I apply my nose to the grindstone I find it difficult to stick it up in the air again to smell the flowers. Of course a degree of obsession often produces the best work; but it does not produce the best life.”
Source: So, Anyway...
“I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.”
“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
“I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.”
Source: Bucket Nut
“I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”
Source: Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
“I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.”
Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
“I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.”
Source: The garden of a commuter's wife
“I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.”
Source: The Churchill Wit
“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”
“I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.”
Source: Recollections and Letters
“I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.”
“I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.”
“I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.”
“I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.”
“I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.”
“I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.”
“I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.”
“I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine."
"What?"
"Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.”
Source: Mary Ann in Autumn
“I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.”
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste