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 tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.”
“I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.”
“I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.”
“I have always trusted my instincts, I took some bold decisions in my life.....many people may say they were crazy risks.”
“I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always honest, if that makes sense. Their wisdom and counsel are always unconditional.”
“I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.”
“I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage”
“I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck (Genickschussspezialisten). Each squad shot for about one hour and was then replaced. The persons who still had to be shot were assembled near the place of the execution, and were guarded by members of those squads, which at the moment did not take part in the executions.”
“I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.”
“I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.”
Source: A Separate War and Other Stories
“I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.”
“I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.”
“I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way”
“I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.”
“I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.”
“I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.”
“I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.”
“I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.”
Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
“I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.”
“I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.”
Source: The White Album
“I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.”
“I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.”
“I have always wanted my colors to sing.”
“I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.”
“I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.”
“I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.”
“I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
“I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.”
“I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.”
“I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.”
“I have always wanted to be liked and respected.”
Source: O. J.: the education of a rich rookie
“I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.”
“I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.”
“I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.”
“I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.”
“I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.”
“I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.”
“I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would say to me, "Darius, you have already passed that mark in your career. You have done prime time and feature films and continue to go upward," and I go, "Are you kidding me?".”
“I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.”
“I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.”
Source: Hot Milk
“I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I have always wanted to kill you, ever since the moment when I learnt of your existence.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.”
Source: Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews
“I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.”
“I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.”
“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”