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 love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.”
“I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.”
“I have no loyalty to President Obama.”
“I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.”
“I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.”
“I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.”
“I have no memories. The angels will bring back all my memories on the day of my death. The cherubim will bring back the forms of all the faces. They will bring back all the hairstyles and ribbons, the positions of arms, past shapes of hands. The seraphim will bring me taste, sound, and fragrances, the flowers I received as gifts, landscapes. The archangels will bring back conversations and farewells, light, the silence of reconciliation.”
Source: Thus Were Their Faces
“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.”
“I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.”
Source: White Cat
“I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.”
“I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are.”
“I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans on the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.”
“I have no mission. No one has.”
“I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.”
“I have no money, but my wallet is overflowing with love.”
“I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.”
“I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person”
“I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.”
“I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.”
“I have no more fight left, the will to keep going has been extinguished and I am ready to throw in the towel. I'm on the verge of giving up. Everything feels meaningless now, my heart is empty and I can't see any light for the future. This unbearable weight of despair seems never-ending, casting a shadow of hopelessness over everything.”
“I have no more fight left, the will to keep going has been extinguished, and I am ready to throw in the towel. Nothing matters anymore, my heart is hollow, and I see no hope for a better tomorrow. Nothing can lighten this heavy burden of despair - it is all too much, and it feels as if there is no end in sight.”
“I have no more fight left, the will to keep going has been extinguished and I am ready to throw in the towel. Nothing matters anymore, my heart is hollow and I see no hope for a better tomorrow. There's nothing that can lighten this heavy burden of despair - it is all too much, and it feels as if there is no end in sight.”
“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”
“I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)
“I have no mother-language, every mother is my mother, every language, my language.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)”
“I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.”
“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“I have no naive notions of good and evil. While Kentucky is not the deep south, there is enough of that type of outlaw mentality in the rural areas that Hollywood movies based on corrupt backwoods cops have some credibility. Making someone disappear in the country is actually far easier to do than in a place like New Jersey. Lots of heavily wooded areas and farms to dispose of a body, should one happen to need to. The look in his eyes had scared me. There was clearly something behind them, something I didn’t want to ever see in the full light of day. Things of nightmares. There are places, dark damp hidden places, where things like that dwell, and to look upon them would drive a person mad with fear.”
Source: Midnight Falls
“I have no name for what circles so perfectly.”
“I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.”
Source: The Assassin and the Underworld
“I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!”
Source: The Portable William Blake
“I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.”
“I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.”
Source: The fall into time
“I have no nationality except humanity,”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“I have no nationality except humanity.
I have no tradition except compassion.
I have no religion except liberty.
I have no god except a family of 7 billion.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“I have no nationality, no country.”
“I have no natural charisma or personality, really.”
“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“I have no need for money or a manor; I would be perfectly content living in a hut so long as I had you by my side. You know that I love you a thousand times more than any reason you could give for why we ought not be together. There is no other possible future for me than you. I would sooner die than stop loving you,' he growled.
They stared at each other, their chests rising and falling in unison. 'Then you had better make sure you find Rothbart because I'm not letting you go after a speech like that.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“I have no need for that hypothesis.”
“I have no need for the boundless sky; the moon and stars are beyond my grasp. I prefer to exist in the real world, for dreams alone cannot sustain me.”
“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I have no need of commandments, popes, or god-men of any sort to hand down my morals to me. I have my own ethical sense, thank you very much. God did not hand down morality to us. We created God to embody our moral instincts.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.”