I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.”
“I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.”
“I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.”
“I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.”
“I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?”
“I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.”
“I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.”
“I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."”
“I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.”
“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
Source: Little Women: Top Novelist Focus
“I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.”
“I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.”
“I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.”
“I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.”
“I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.”
“I keep vigil over the stories of men and the stories of things, in case I can discern some secret message of my Love.”
Source: Prayers by the Lake
“I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.”
“I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.”
“I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.”
“I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.”
“I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.”
“I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.”
“I keep waiting to not love you anymore.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.”
“I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.”
“I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)”
Source: Dangerous Games: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel
“I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history. What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.”
Source: Bliss
“I keep what's mine, and I do not share.”
“I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.”
“I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.”
“I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on.”
Source: Flying to America: 45 More Stories
“I keep wondering what would have happened if his unquiet mother had hoarded books instead of semiautomatic weapons.”
Source: American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring
“I keep wondering why a black woman’s death alone can’t begin the revolution/ whether the sweet smoke rising to the heavens across this nation is offering enough/”
“I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.”
“I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”
“I keep working in solitude and agony with no one by my side, day after day, without any hope for personal happiness, for I carry the responsibility to unify the humans, by pointing out to them, with evidence, their innate oneness beyond all sectarianism - and I do so, not out of any sort of compulsion, rather, because that's who I am - I am no human - I am the unifying force of nature - I am the One and I am the All - in me lies the possibility of human harmony - in me lies the possibility of human acceptance - I am the driving force of conscience - I am the absolute timeless ocean of unified sentience.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.”
“I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.”
“I keep writing books about why TV is good. There's nothing more fun to me than steering people toward something that I really loved that I think they might not otherwise see. That's the reason I do what I do.”
“I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.”
“I keep you written in the fabric of my stories and the ones that are yet to be written but that live under my skin waiting to be told... This life is passing and I want to marry it with you before our time is up. You are the promise of my faith so how could I ever forget you from the yearning in my soul that screams out its gladness knowing that you exist? There are no words to describe how grateful I am for how love has wrapped my mind in a blanket of dreamy memories that I take with my heart everywhere I go. I hope the birds will carry my love—that I express in words, art and creativity—like silhouettes against the Moon so when you feel alone or feel far from my arms, their fluttering wings will help you remember how very loved you are by me.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“I keep your soul
In my ageing wallet,
The unimportant stuff
(Money, cards, coins)
Stay loose in my pocket,
A place as fickle as they.”
Source: Nothing But The Rain: A Collection of Poems
“I keeps it real nothing. Like you actors do”
“I ken very weel that I am the coarsest and most black-avised bitch in a the Court o Session.”
“I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?”
Source: The Pearl Thief
“I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.”
“I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.”
“I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.”