I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.”
“I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.”
“I have never thought of legacy or what I want to achieve.”
“I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me.”
“I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.”
“I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.”
“I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.”
“I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.”
“I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.”
“I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.”
Source: Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words: The Man and the Artist
“I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.”
“I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.”
Source: Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...
“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”
“I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.”
“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”
“I have never touched Hillary [Clinton] inappropriately.”
“I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.”
“I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become me. I have only wanted to be me; if people think I'm good, then so be it. If people think I'm bad, then so be it. But if anything, my greatest struggle is to not come across as so good. I always find myself asking, "Why do I keep on giving off this immense impression of goodness?" Can I ask the world, am I not simply allowed to be me; without needing to be classified as either good or bad? Being known as good has its own prison just as much as being bad has its jail bars. I am so tired of the need to classify people. I am me.”
“I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.”
“I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.”
“I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.”
Source: Of Christmas Present
“I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!”
“I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.”
“I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.”
“I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.”
“I have never understood people who want to keep their children as babies and regret every year that they grow older. I myself sometimes felt that I could hardly wait; I wanted to see exactly what Rosalind would be like in a year's time, a year after that, and so on. There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think than having a child that is your, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. You are the gate through which it came into the world, and you will be allowed to have charge of it for a period; after that it will leave you and blossom out into its own free life -- and there it is, for you to watch, living its life in freedom. It is like a strange plant which you have brought home, planted, and can hardly wait to see how it will turn out.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.”
“I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!”
“I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?”
“I have never understood the Iowa caucus.”
“I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.”
“I have never understood the misguided attitude of most people to heavy, fleshy women, who are generally considered ugly. Surely, in the generous abundance of their flesh, their broad dips and curves and gradual inclines - bodies where the questing lover may wander freely and unhindered; where he can stop and rest, or turn a corner and discover some hidden recess - surely these magnificent women have a marked superiority over those of a more conventional build? They have so much more to offer!”
Source: The Sensualist
“I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.”
“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”
Source: Indiscretion
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
“I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.”
“I have never understood why many Indian patent examiners treat attorneys as either rivals or inferiors.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.”
Source: A life in our times: memoirs
“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.”
“I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.”
“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.”
“I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.”
“I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.”
“I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.”
“I have never used steroids. Never.”
“I have never used steroids. Period.”