I Quotes
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“I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting.”
“i immerse
myself
in you
like
i immerse myself
into a
beautiful story.”
“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.”
“I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.”
“I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.”
“I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“I implore, make it clear to me
Just once—
Should you be only
mind, intellect, and soul
where should I go
if I wanted
to merge with you?”
“I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be a good religious person, or be a good atheist person. How? By putting an end to faultfinding. All do what they believe in their best interest to do and with a little insight and understanding, all can see that the only way anyone can do any good service to the world, is by being thankful for what is been given him, by looking inwards to correct his own faults instead of the perceived faults of others, and by keeping his eye upon his own horizon; not upon the perceived horizons of anybody else.”
“I implore thee to tell me, if it doth not cause thee too much pain, what it is that distresseth thee, and who, what, and how many are the persons on whom I must wreak proper, complete, and entire vengeance.”
“I implore those who love me to love my solitude.”
“I implore you – do not mind anyone who takes the time to judge you for your honest, well-intended mistakes.”
“I implore you. Take the train appearing in the distance: this train might be the last.”
Source: Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
“I implore you to experiment with different approaches to your own life.”
“I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority—you've got to speak with it too.”
“I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.”
“I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”
“I improve in misquotation.”
“I improve on misquotation.”
“I improved my sleeping circadian rhythm with red and infrared light exposures.”
“I improvise therefore I exist!”
Source: The New Land
“I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.”
“I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.”
“I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.”
Source: The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger: The Duke of Milan, The Roman Actor, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam
“i. In the new version of my new story, the actor cast in the role of my heart will no longer be asked to play arsonist to crumbled ruins in order to collect on the insurance policy of all she risked in the name of love.
ii. She will also no longer feel the need to erect skyscraper scaffolds to prop up walls too weary to hold the weight of their own aspirations.
iii. Instead, she will plant riotous gardens of wildflowers, sing the shooting stars home to her chest, and discover that the secret to healing has been long naps and deep joy all along.
iv. She will, of course, continue to risk it all for love. Why would she possibly do anything but that?
v. Despite all the burning she has known, despite all the ways the ashes of her hopes have fallen ungracefully from great heights, she has always been born for the rise.
vi. She remembers now that she has never fallen without being caught. My god, her people have such strong arms.
vii. She knows that sometimes, it’s not so much rising as being lifted and held until the singed feathers grow back and the wings are strong enough to spread wide and fly again.
viii. Hands at your back, her dearheart says. She feels them there and knows she is never alone.
ix. Every story that dies gives birth to another. This has been the way of stories since the beginning of time.
x. The actor newly cast in the role of my heart is ready for a new story to begin.”
“I inadvertently had a very high dose of environmental transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) when commissioning a very high powered utility electronic power plant and I can assure you that it can do very strange things to your thinking and the effects last a very long time!”
Source: Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
“I incessantly excuse myself and attempt to side-step the shame that I am due by embracing the ever-sinking standards I am perpetually fashioning. These diminishing compromises make me look the hero while I am wholly the villain.”
“I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.”
“I incessantly wallow in the ‘muck and mire’ of the terrible messes that I have made. And when I realize that God has long ago removed all the ‘muck and mire,’ I suddenly understand that the only wallowing that’s going on is in my head.”
“I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.”
Source: A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question
“I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Source: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
“I inclined my head slightly, and lowered my shield only long enough to say down the bond: To the dreams that are answered.
A heartbeat later, a sensual caress trailed along my mental shields- a polite request. I let it drop, let him in, and his voice filled my head. To the huntresses who remember to reach back for those less fortunate- and water-wraiths who swim very, very fast.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I include Rudy Giuliani here who, in many ways, is more comfortable as a neocon.”
“I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.”
“I incorporate different styles that work for me. I could easily change my style depends on my opponent.”
“I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.”
“I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.”
“I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.”
“I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!”
“I indicated to Karl slumped on the stool next to Clare at the bar. The fucking jerk didn't deserve a free lap dance, but it was the only way to get him away from Clare without ripping out his jugular.”
Source: She-Wolf
“i indulge in many drugs,
seeking that high—
but the feed is the ultimate sky.
nothing beats the rush of dopamine,
mindlessly scrolling through the screen.”
Source: the void and the feed
“I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'”
“I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.”
“I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.”
“I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.”
“I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.”
“I informed him I had had the honour of being in the firm twenty years, to which he insolently replied that I “looked it.” I gave him an indignant look, and said: “I demand from you some respect, sir.” He replied: “All right, go on demanding.”
Source: The Dairy Of A Nobody
“I informed him that the cottage had been perfectly satisfactory as it was, to which he replied that the place had been so dank and cheerless as to be suitable only to bats and unsociable gargoyles brooding over their books, and he would sooner put his eyes out than endure weeks of such wretched environs.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.”
“I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.”
“I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.”
Source: Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy