I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.”
“I know nothing about love.
But I love the idea of having someone to love.
And having someone to love me back.
Someone with whom I share my sombre moments.
Someone with whom I share my laughter.”
“I know nothing about love.
No, that’s not exactly true. I know nothing about love that comes with a map or guarantee or even a set of rudimentary instructions.
Instead, what I know is kind of a collective unknowing. It is a wisdom that lies only in understanding the extent of my own lack of knowledge. An embrace of the mystery. Of the unpredictability.
Of the way love defies capture or description or ownership. Of the way it refuses boxes or labels or limits. Of the way, we return to it again and again and again. Regardless of fear and walls and every sensible bone in our human bodies.
No matter the hurt and the pain and the betrayal of our own integrity. Our hearts? They are always willing to deep dive one more, one more, just one more time...”
“I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.”
“I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.”
“I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.”
“I know nothing about technology.”
“I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.”
“I know nothing and my heart aches”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I know nothing and perhaps I never will.”
“I know nothing at all about music.”
“I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.”
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
“I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.”
Source: Complete Prose Works
“I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I’m seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that’s all that realness is, anyway”
Source: A Place to Come To
“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
“I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.”
“I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.”
Source: The Horla and Other Stories
“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.”
“I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.”
“I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.”
“I know nothing of God, or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that will damn or save my soul.”
“I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.”
“I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.”
Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
“I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.”
Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens
“I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.”
Source: Collected Works
“I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.”
Source: Imam & the Indian, The (PB)
“I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.”
“I know nothing Oliver.”
“I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.”
Source: The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories
“I know nothing, sometimes something, and I’m always ready to learn everything.”
“I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.”
“I know nothing will ever move me enough to turn things around. Nothing can break down this anger. I know the foundations of my childhood aren’t strong enough to support me.”
Source: Sa préférée
“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”
“I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.”
“I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.”
“I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“I know now after travelling Lonely, Sleepless miles- A day’s worth of laughter, Can bring a life worth of Smiles.”
Source: The Idiosyncrasies of Life: An Anthology of Poems, Songs & Stories
“I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.”
“I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.”
Source: The Greengage Summer
“I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.”
“I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time.”
“I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.”
“I know now, since I'm well into my adulthood, that there's a side to the unions made in high school that has perpetual resonance, a side that remains in arrested development that will never let you forget who you essentially are.”
Source: Little Tea
“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a sublime Africa before the white man's corruption, so did Thomas Jefferson dream of an idyllic Britain before the Normans, so do all of us dream of some other time when things were so simple. I know now that that hunger is a retreat from the knotty present into myth and that what ultimately awaits those who retreat into fairy tales, who seek refuge in the mad pursuit to be made great again, in the image of greatness that never was, is tragedy.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.”
“I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.”
Source: Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
“I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.”
“I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.”