I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.”
“I have finally come to realize that it’s being forced to be honest with myself that’s made my pain painful all along.”
“I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.”
“I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.”
“I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.”
Source: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
“I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.”
“I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.”
“I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.”
“I have finished Pasternak with mixed feelings, which is more than I hoped for.”
“I have finished school and so it's becoming a real job, and as an actor, you cannot always just play roles. To me, it's important to live, to be who I am and then to get out of that, because when you play a role, it's always a bit of yourself. Okay, you can get some things, but that's why it's so important to gain life experience in order to act - it's important to care about this.”
“I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.”
“I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.”
“I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?”
“I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.”
“I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.”
“I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.”
“I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.”
“I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.”
“I have fled from the wilderness fasting, with woe and unflagging travail,
I have sought for the light on the mountain, and skirted the devilish dale.
I have laid my mouth in the dust, and begged the Might to be kind,
I have come to the feast, and I famish. Now grant me the Holy Grail.”
Source: Pendragon's Heir
“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”
“I have flirted
with disaster like
a miracle reversed
midstream.”
Source: Mirrored Voices : Best Contemporary Poetry
“I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it.”
Source: So Silver Bright
“I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.”
“I have flown to you like a child to her mother.”
“I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.”
“I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.”
“I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.”
Source: The Silver Stallion
“I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.”
“I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.”
“I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.”
“I have followed my instincts many times when I have been looking for things that I could not see, and faith that they would be revealed with time has always been rewarded.”
“I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.”
“I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.”
“I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.”
“I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.”
“I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.”
“I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.”
“I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?”
“I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.”
Source: The Ancient and Honorable Man. A Discourse [on Isaiah Iii. 1-3] Preached on the Occasion of the Death of Hon. J. Q. Adams, Etc
“I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.”
Source: Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize
“I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.”
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.”
Source: Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I have for you braised and fried chicken feet, served with buffalo sauce, a salad of cauliflower rubble and grated celery, and a blue cheese mascarpone cream."
Luke's face lit up as he saw the chicken feet, the exact opposite expressions of Lenore and Maz, who looked very much as if they were at an actual graveyard and had seen an actual claw shoot up from the grave. "It reminds me of dakbal," he breathed, and he sounded for a moment as if it were just the two of us sitting side by side in that Korean speakeasy, shoulder touching shoulder. Unconsciously, I took a step toward him. "My halmoni used to make dakbal as a snack when we visited her in Korea. She'd steam them first, then panfry them until they were charred, and then there was the secret sauce she made, all garlicky and gingery and tingling with gochugaru..."
As he trailed off, I could almost taste his grandmother's chicken feet. The chew of the meat after the crisp of the char. The caramelization of the sugars on the skin, and the nose-running spiciness of the sauce.
"I didn't know you were Korean," said Maz.
That broke the mood. I stepped back, clearing my throat.
Meanwhile, Lenore Smith was crunching away. "I was worried about eating these fried chicken feet right after that deep-fried noodle kugel, but this bracing, vinegary salad underneath really cuts through the fat and the richness," she said, swallowing. "I love the chicken feet, but I almost love this salad more. Is that crazy?"
"Yes," Luke said. "The chicken feet are delicious. Cooked so that they're tender and also crunchy on the outside, and that sauce is the perfect amount of spicy and vinegary.”
Source: Sadie on a Plate
“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
Source: The complete works of Marcel Duchamp
“I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.
A new one comes on with the same lines,
like large white growths, in his mouth.
The dancers come on from the wings,
perfectly mated.”
Source: Selected poems
“I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.”
“I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.”