I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.”
“I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!”
“I have grown up in a neighborhood which there was constant drama and tragedy. I know cinema more than you ever think.”
Source: How to Talk to Anyone
“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic land devoid of geographic borders, ethnicity and nationality. In fact, through their stories, I imagined it as a land with mango orchards, joint families, village settlements, endless lengths of ancestral fields extending into the horizon, and quaint local bazaars teeming with excitement on festive days. As a result, the history of my grandparents’ early lives in what became Pakistan essentially came across as a very idyllic, somewhat rural, version of happiness.”
“I have grown up loving Shakespeare.”
“I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.”
“I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.”
“I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.”
“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“I have grown weary of the poets, the old and the new; they all seem to me superficial and shallow seas....
Truly, their spirit itself is the peacock of peacocks and a sea of vanity!”
“I have guts, just not when it counts.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“I have had 50 drinks in one go!”
“I have had a career in public service.”
“I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.”
“I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“I have had a crazy life! It is amazing I am still alive!!!”
“I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.”
“I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.”
“I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.”
“I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.”
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.”
“I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.”
“I have had a front row seat to observe Darren's success over the last few years and never fully knew the keys to his achievement. He has unselfishly revealed his secrets with The Compound Effect so that others can learn from his success. In my eyes, it is more valuable than gold!”
“I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.”
“I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.”
Source: Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser
“I have had a great time as president.”
Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”
“I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.”
“I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.”
“I have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!”
Source: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [and The Bottle Imp]
“I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.”
“I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.”
“I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.”
“I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.”
Source: Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams
“I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.”
“I have had a lot of fun pushing the boundaries on my balloon and kitesurf adventures, breaking some world records in the process, and I think this attitude of having fun whilst working hard is one that lends itself very well to successful entrepreneurship.”
“I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.”
“I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.”
“I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.”
“I have had a lot of success with failure”
“I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person. I don't think English makes the man nor does American, but I like this guy right here [Clive]. He's nice and tall, which means I never have a double chin - there's lots of shots of me looking up, and I'm a swan. Well, we all laugh but it's so true.”
“I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life.”
“I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.”
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
“I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated energy meridian.”
“I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.”
“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.”
“I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.”
Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats