I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.”
“I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.”
“I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.”
“I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.”
“I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.”
“I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.”
“I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.”
“I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.”
“I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”
“I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.”
“I like normal life, but I will go crazy if Im not working.”
“I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.”
“I like normal, simple, good people.”
“I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.”
“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”
“I like not knowing everything. It makes things more interesting.”
Source: Crenshaw
“I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .”
“I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.”
Source: The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of
silence is large enough beyond the grave.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes... they are idea men.”
“I like not to be good at anything, so I keep hopping around.”
“I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.”
“I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.”
“I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.”
“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.”
“I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit.”
“I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.”
“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
“I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.”
“I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.”
“I like old hippies so much more than old conservatives.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.”
Source: Couples: A Novel
“I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.”
“I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.”
“I like old people when they have aged well.”
“I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.”
“I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.”
“I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.”
“I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.”
“I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.”
“I like older boys, but they think, 'She's underage.' I'd love to have somebody in mind when I sing.”
“I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.”
Source: Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
“I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.”
“I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.”
“I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.”
“I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.”
“I like Oregon, USA, but I do avoid their troublesome downtown areas.”