I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.”
“I am Chinese mother, all I do is create conflict.”
Source: Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]
“I am choosing the bear every time unless we can explicitly state that it is in a man's true nature to do the malicious and immoral things that he often does.”
“I am choosing to live.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am Chris Jericho, your new hero! And I am the new millenium for the World Wrestling Federation!”
“I am Christian from when I was little. Because of the politics in Spain, everybody must be Christian by law. But I'm not a real big believer. I believe in people. I believe in life. But not especially in Catholics or priests or whatever.”
“I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.
Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.
The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.
The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat.
"No, Katniss! No! You can't go!"
But the ones I hated are winning, and if she clings to me, she'll be lost as well. "Prim, let go!" And finally she does.”
“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”
Source: Selected poems
“I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.”
“I am clanless. I wasted the last weeks of August watching bad cartoons. I didn’t go to the mall, the lake, or the pool, or answer the phone. I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don’t have anyone to sit with.
I am Outcast.”
Source: Speak
“I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.”
“I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.”
“I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.”
“I am clearly content to be beyond help.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.”
“I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.”
“I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.”
“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.”
“I am climbing a difficult road;
but the glory gives me strength.”
“I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.”
“I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream”
“I am close - too close - with my family.”
“I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.”
“I am closed off into myself and no one but me can ever help me get out.”
“I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.”
“I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.”
“I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try to starve the Continent into a state of revolt and to terrorize German civilians with bombing raids, was part of the total catastrophe.”
“I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.”
“I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers.
Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?
I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.
I want to be someone you can’t live without.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.”
“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”
“I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.”
“I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.”
“I am cold
but not numb.
I am silent
but not dumb.
I am not gazing
but not blind.
I am not making love
but impotent I am not.
I will take
a time to coil
and then as a snake
I will strike
at the heart
of the tyranny.
Watch out for me,
my name is DEMOCRACY.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“I am cold cold
trying to slide myself out of my own shade
but hour by hour more shade leaks out”
Source: Falling Awake
“I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.”
Source: A Long Long Way
“I am cold from regret.”
Source: Heaven
“I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand”
“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“I am coloured by my father’s
Far and painted image.
In a thousand lines of broken questions,
I have tried to find
Some thread, some bind
That would peep me through the locked
Doors of his life and why I am as I stand.
He drank gin with a sense of humour,
He was thin and killed by a tumour.
In twenty words, his full-fleshed life
Is boned for approval,
In twenty words, I am lured away
And buried in the obscurities
Of twenty thousand lives, not so different.
Twenty stories told by twenty people
Nurture confused and distracted poetry.
I am not certain that he was a man
And was indeed my father, I am not sure,
And yet, I am coloured by my father’s
Far and painted image.”
“I am come, finally. The final curtain and the last song. And I will burn this half-world and clothe myself in its ashes before I am done. Children of the Emperor! Death to His foes!”
Source: Fabius Bile: The Omnibus
“I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable", and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi".
We will say then, that I am mad.”
Source: Eleonora
“I am come to warn you. I am come to impeach your happiness. It is fashioned out of the misery of your neighbour. You have everything, and that is composed of the nothing of others… As for me, I am but a voice. Mankind is a mouth, of which I am the cry. You shall hear me!”
Source: The Man Who Laughs
“I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.”
“I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.”
“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.”
“I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.”
“I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.”
“I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.”
“I am comfortable performing now. I love it!”