I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have no complaints, except for the world.”
“I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.”
“I have no complaints. I think I'm especially lucky. As you said, I've come from outside and I'm not even anywhere closely connected. But I have absolutely no problem here. People have been more than welcoming, even before I was ready.”
“I have no complaints. I've worked with worse directors in my career.”
“I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.”
“I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.”
Source: No Laughing Matter
“I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.”
“I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.”
“I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.”
“I have no confidence whatsoever in BP. I think that they do not know what they are doing.”
“I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.”
“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.”
“I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.”
“I have no control over events. I can only be courageously to conquer every challenge.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I have no control over my words, including the titles. Every time a title appears in my mind it sends a chill down my spine. The entire body shakes up in momentary tremor followed by the rush of an immense tranquility. And that's it! Right or not, that is the title.
The same happens whenever I come up with a radical statement. Just like Ramanujan used to have visions of numbers, I have visions of words, that too, in the most socially relevant manner possible.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.”
“I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.”
“I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.”
Source: Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“I have no control over time. I can only live in the time.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.”
“I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?”
“I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.”
“I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered. The idea that some subjects are male and some are female is just preposterous to me. It's reductive and nonsensical, to separate writers and subjects and plots along gender lines. It's meaningless.”
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
Source: Writings of Eugene V. Debs
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
“I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.”
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851
“I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I have no credit cards. That was the decision that was made jointly by the credit card companies, and by me. I can't say that that was completely on my account. I buy nothing on credit now, nothing. If I can't afford it, I don't buy it. I have a debit card, that's all I have. Any debt that I have, I am paying down.”
“I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“I have no curiosity about this gigantic, life-altering secret whatsoever. You’re safe with me.”
Source: Still Me
“I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.”
Source: Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets
“I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.”
“I have no desire, as some appear to have, to play down the value of our Reformation heritage: but I believe we are most faithful to the Reformers when we go back to the New Testament and see whether we can understand it even better than they did. (The Great Acquittal: Justification by Faith and Current Christian Thought, 1980)”
“I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.”
“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.”
“I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"”
“I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.”
Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.”
“I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.”
“I have no desire to carry a movie.”
“I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.”
“I have no desire to die as just another writer like that bard fella. If I must die as a writer, I will die as the first multi-cultural writer in history.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.”
“I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.”