I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.”
“I have my romantic moments - for sure.”
“I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.”
“I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.”
“I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.”
“I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.”
“I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.”
“I have my songs ready in my head, gather the guys, play it and then let them go with it. [The music] finds its way, we do what the music says to do......the song is the producer.”
“I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.”
“I have my style and I stick to it.”
“I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.”
“I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.”
“I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.”
“I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.”
“I have my throne, I have my sword, I have an empire. But I have . . . no-one.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists' mistakes that I'm never going to use my career as a platform for politics, especially at shows. People come to hear music. It's my job to entertain them, and it's my escape too.”
“I have my way of doing things.”
“I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.”
“I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.”
“I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.”
“I have my wizards rock along. Could I interest you? Naked?”
“I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.”
“I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect, you try to heal your inner child. But as an activist, there's the outward, going wide therapy, where you get to realize at a certain point that talking about yourself gets boring. And it's also unhealthy to be so much into yourself. At some point, you have got to be able to look at the issue and say, "It's not about you. It's about a culture, a people, a nation, a family."”
“I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.”
“I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.”
“I have myself eaten the hallucinogenic mushroom, psilocybe, a divine ambrosia in immemorial use among the Masatec Indians of Oaxaca Province, Mexico; hear the priestess invoke Tlaloc, the Mushroom-god, and seen transcendental visions. Thus I wholeheartedly agree with R. Gordon Wasson, the American discoverer of this ancient rite, that European ideas of heaven and hell may well have derived from similar mysteries.”
Source: The Greek Myths: Complete Edition
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental relation;" and their request was granted. These husbands blushed before the superior nobleness of their wives' natures. Though they had only counseled them to do that which was their duty to do, it commanded their respect, and rendered their conduct more exemplary. Concealment was at an end, and confidence took the place of distrust.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
“I have myself to face a world which is tragic without becoming tragic myself.”
“I have myself to thank-
I endured the bends
He loved me
in the way he comprehends”
Source: Not Your Kind: The Gaslit Files
“I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.”
“I have N'Sync and Aerosmith and Britney Spears. I have a trifecta from hell.”
“I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.”
“I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it.”
Source: The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan
“I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
“I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.”
“I have nearly completed
your disappearance”
Source: The Last Usable Hour
“I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“I have need of all those crimes, all those very sins, which you have shrouded beneath the signposts of 'The Forbidden Zone'.”
Source: Sapphire: The Blue Testament
“I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.”
“I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods.”
Source: Dartmouth Lyrics
“I have need to busy my heart with quietude.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.”
“I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.”
“I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.”
“I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the capacities of time, to be the most spectacular human in history”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.”