I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!”
“I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.”
“I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.”
“I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.”
“I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.”
“I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life.”
“I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'”
“I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.”
“I knew what I wanted. To save time, I said, “Just give me a good, old fashioned alpha male please.”
Source: Virtual Mirrors: First Journal
“I knew what I was capable of. I knew what he was capable of. I would burn the world for him without hesitation, and he would do the same for me. There was no illusion of innocence between us anymore. We had seen too much, done too much, crossed too many lines that ordinary people would never dare approach.
We were not heroes.
We were something darker.
Monsters, demons, devils if one wished to be poetic about it. Two boots of one pair, walking the same cursed path without regret.”
Source: Horns of Love
“I knew what I was doing, always! I just couldn't stop.”
“I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.”
“I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.”
“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.”
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”
Source: Change of Heart: A Novel
“I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.”
“I knew what it was to feel utterly helpless.”
Source: Shantaram
“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”
Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.”
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.”
“I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.”
“I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.”
“I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.”
“I knew what Saint Dane was sensing. I knew why he was confused. he thought I was done. He thought we were done. He was wrong, and that's what he was sensing. He felt our presence. I figured I might as well confirm things for him. "Pendragon, don't--," Patrick warned. I stepped out fron behind the pillar into the light. "Man, that suit is just wicked cool!" I called out.”
Source: Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla
“I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.”
“I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.”
“I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.”
“I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.”
“I knew what was about to happen. I knew I was going to cry. It’s not even about sadness—it’s about vulnerability. Seeing into a person’s soul, even for a moment, is just too much. It’s like the convex meniscus Sylvia Plath describes in The Bell Jar—the water that clings to the sides of the glass before one tiny pulse causes it to overflow.”
Source: Burning Sage
“I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.”
“I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.”
“I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.”
“I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.”
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
“I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.”
“I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.”
“I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.”
“I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.”
“I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?”
“I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.”
“I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.”
Source: If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
“I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider’s web.”
Source: Ancestor Stones
“I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.”
“I knew when the medical profession could not diagnose me correctly that I probably had a new and undocumented disease.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.”
“I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.”
“I knew where I was. It had been too long. I blinked back the image and tried to clear my head. I had to remember which world I was in.”
Source: Broken