I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.”
“I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.”
“I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.”
“I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.”
“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.”
“I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.”
“I have directed all my e-mails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State and on information and belief, this has been done.”
“I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.”
“I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.”
“I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.”
“I have disassociated myself from that book.”
“I have discipline, I look after my voice.”
“I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.”
“I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent...
- Press in to God when you want to pull away.
- Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints.
- Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.)”
“I have discovered a fountain of youth.
It is called fruit salad and peace of mind.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.”
“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”
“I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“I have discovered biker paradise. It is called the Great Smoky Mountains.”
Source: Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast
“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.”
Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
“I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.”
“I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.”
Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
“I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it....Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.”
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
“I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.”
“I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.”
“I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.”
Source: Picasso and photography: the dark mirror
“I have discovered recently that life is just practice for what it feels like to die. Everything that happens is just practice, like you might practise drawing or painting.”
Source: Planet of Clay
“I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.”
“I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.”
“I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.”
“I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”
“I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.”
“I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.”
“I have discovered that if you love life, life will love you in return. Give before you get.
Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life”
“I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.”
“I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.”
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.”
“I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.”
“I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...”
“I have discovered that people don’t learn lessons when they don't suffer the consequences...
In Jewish law, it is called Teshuvah, which—appropriately—means both ‘repentance’ and ‘return.’ It is the penance we do in order to be able to return.”
“I have discovered that people who are doing well in life. Once they reach the age of 30 without having children. They lose the interest of having kids. They end up not wanting to have kids of their own.”
“I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.”
Source: Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)
“I have discovered that some groups and castes are offered little to no opportunity to work in the public sector in Nepal.”
Source: Why Nepal Fails
“I have discovered that some people are wealthier than others not because of their superior intelligence but because of their abundant mindset.”
“I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.”