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 voted in my life.”
“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
“I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.”
“I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.”
Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein
“I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.”
Source: North America
“I have never walked the broad byways of life without eventually regretting the fact that I foolishly bypassed those slight paths obscured by the tangled overgrowth of life. For in doing so I swapped adventure for apathy.”
“I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.”
Source: Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
“I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.”
“I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.”
“I have never wanted to be normal, because "normal" equals boring.”
“I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.”
“I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.”
“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.”
“I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.”
“I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.”
“I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can't be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I'm on screen. It's quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.”
“I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.”
“I have never willingly chased a ball.”
“I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.”
Source: The Crack-up
“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”
“I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.”
“I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.”
“I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.”
“I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.”
“I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.”
“I have NEVER worked with a better lead generating company! Thank You Zillow.”
“I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.”
“I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.”
“I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.”
“I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.”
“I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.”
“I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.”
Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton
“I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.”
“I have never written a note I didn't mean.”
“I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a challenge because I had to think about who knows what, when do they know it, when are they sharing what they know or what they think they know, how the reader's perspective affects things. Telling the story in that way is challenging. It does require a lot of revision.”
“I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.”
“I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.”
“I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.”
“I have never written anything sexually explicit.”
“I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.”
“I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.”
“I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.”
“I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.”
“I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.”
Source: The Silver Door
“I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.”
Source: Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)
“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money. I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.”
“I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
“I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.”
“I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.”
Source: Recollections of Curran, and some of his contemporaries ... Second edition
“I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.”