I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.”
“I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.”
“I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.”
“I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.”
“I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.”
“I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.”
“I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.”
“I lived through this horror, and no one can tell me I have to stay quiet.
"I have been silenced long enough, and I will not allow that family to silence me again. I will continue to speak out and make sure my voice is heard.”
Source: Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
“I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.”
“I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.”
“I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.”
“I lived to write, and wrote to live.”
Source: Italy: A Poem
“I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.”
“I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.”
“I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.”
“I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.”
“I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow. Oftentimes I had the impression that someone had torn the majority of pages out of the book of my life, because they were empty, or because they belonged not to me but to someone else’s life.”
Source: Ostatnie rozdanie
“I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.”
“I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.”
“I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.”
“I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.”
“I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.”
“I lived with my mom in Hawaii until I pissed her off. And then I came to live with my dad and pissed him off. He made me hustle, and claw, and fight. That's all stuff you want. You want that drive.”
“I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.”
“I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.”
“I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.”
Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950
“I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.”
“I'll abandon everyone else's expectations of me before I abandon myself.”
Source: Untamed
“I'll accept your apology on one condition." He folded his arms across his chest.
"Anything?"
"You trust me."
I cocked my head to the side. "I trust you, Cam."
"No, you don't." He walked over to my small table and pulled out a chair. "Have a seat."
Sitting down, I tugged the hem of his shirt down as he headed back to the stove, putting the tiny skillet over the burner.
"If you trusted me, you wouldn't have reacted the way you did," he simply said, cracking an egg. "And that's not me judging you or any of that kind of shit. You got to trust me that I'm not going to be an ass or freak out over that kind of stuff. You have to trust that I care enough about you.”
Source: Wait for You
“I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well”
Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
“I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong places.”
“I suppose that you’re going to tell me where you think I should look.”
“You’ll find God in the same place you’re going to find salvation from this mess,” Wit said. “Inside the hearts of men.”
“Curiously,” Jasnah said, “I believe I can actually agree with that, though I suspect for different reasons than you imply.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“I’ll admit that I was pathetic. I cried too much and engaged in conversations too little.”
Source: Royals
“I’ll admit to being a stupid, young girl with a hopeless crush who for some, preposterous reason, won’t give up on the boy she once gagged at the thought of loving. The boy who has a death grip on the shattered remains of her heart, the boy she knows will never give her the chance she craves, as his heart has already been won. The first and only boy she’s ever cried over.”
Source: The Crush
“I’ll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.”
“I'll always be here, because with everyday that passes, I find new ways to love you.”
Source: Smoke & Mirrors
“I'll always be here if you need me. I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.”
Source: The Last Hope
“I’ll always be here if you need me,” Mothwing told him. “I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.”
Source: The Last Hope
“I'll always be here waiting for you," he said, touching my chest with his fingertips, drawing a shape of a heart.”
Source: Lonely Souls
“I'll always be here. You can't make me leave if you got the priest from the exorcist to come remove me. Cause I'm on step above demon... I'm Preppy.”
Source: Tyrant
“I’ll always be the yearning poet
Bleeding ink
Chasing stars
Drunk on dreams.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“I'll always be with you, kitten, for as long as there are stars in the sky' - Niyx, Graevale”
Source: Graevale
“I’ll always be your friend,” he said. “Your best friend, if you let me. But I want to be your lover, too.” He groaned and shifted in his chair. “Soon. I want to be that soon.” Then a look came over him. “Oh Gina…I didn’t even court you! God, I should date you first before I beg you to take off your clothes!”
Source: The wanderer
“I'll always be yours. No distance or time apart will change that, Lily.”
“I’ll always be yours. No distance or time apart will change that, Lily. You need to believe that.”
Source: Addicted to You
“i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel ,, torment”
“I'll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies but who is just punching the clock. Why? An enthusiastic teacher can learn technique, but it is almost impossible to light a fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher.”
Source: Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator
“I'll always choose you.
Gabe Willoughby”
Source: Haven
“I’ll always come back to you,” he said. “Always.”
Source: The Christmas Cowboy Hero
“I'll always come back to you," he tells me, pulling me close.
Always.
--Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 441)”
Source: Shades of Earth