I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I long for the day I no longer long for him.”
Source: Down to the Bone
“I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.”
“I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.”
“I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.”
Source: The book of Gossage: a compilation, which includes
“I long for the day
when I hear the music
without any song.”
“I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.”
“I long for the day when someone loves me as much as women in commercials love yogurt.”
Source: The Rudman Conjecture on Quantum Entanglement
“I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.”
“I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.”
Source: Underworld: A Novel
“I long for the days of good honest crooks.”
“I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.”
“I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.”
“I long for the days when I was One with the one who was the only one I could be One with.”
“I long for the days when my dreams were believed
And wonder was met with applause
before life's unyielding critical gaze
Stepped in to point out all my flaws...”
Source: Carve a Place for Me
“I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“I long for the luxury of being impractical.”
Source: The Toll
“I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.”
“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.”
“I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.”
“I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a natural mystery and reason to face it make the happiest combination of all.”
Source: The Supernatural Enhancements
“I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.”
“I long for those tranquil moments of absolute nothing. And I think the reason I really like them is because the moment the world goes mute, my brain seems to open like a flower in the spring. I actually can feel little inner doors unlocking.”
Source: Simple Things Sheet Music
“I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
For a man's attention
Brings such satisfaction
To the craving in my bones.”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.”
“i long for you but you long for someone else”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“I long for You so much
I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
That are high in the mountains
That I know are years old.
I long for You so much
I have even begun to travel
Where I have never been before.”
“I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.”
“I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.”
“I long since decided that the author of a text lacking a narrative presence is guilty of posturing or, more likely, of incompetence.”
Source: A Million Windows
“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.”
Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean
“I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ.”
“I long to be healed — and to become a hand that heals as well.”
“I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.”
“I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.”
“I long to come home, but now, I will always come home to my family as a visitor, and that weighs on me, reverts me back into the teenager I was, but instead of insisting that I want everyone to leave me alone, what I want now is for someone to beg me to stay.”
Source: Sour Heart
“I long to crack that mirror and be free. I look at my sex, my troubling sex, and wonder how it can be redeemed, how I can save it from the knife. The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over. Yet, the key to my salvation, which cannot save my body, is hidden in my flesh”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“I long to create something
that can't be used to keep us passive:
I want to write
a script about plumbing, how every pipe
is joined
to every other.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1950-2012
“I long to desire something. I am afraid I no longer desire anything.”
“I long to do wild, passionate things.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.”
“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.”
Source: Forty Stories
“I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.”
“I long to get away, sometimes, from my own generation. I don't care whether it's into the past, or into the future, so long as it's away from the patter into simple realities again. I hate being a slave to my own age.
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We are so afraid of sentimentality that we're losing the power of human feeling. Our writers today understand all the brutalities and cynicisms; but how many of them understand the simple human affections that hold decent human beings together and make the world worth living in?”
Source: The Sun Cure
“I long to get back into theater.”
“I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drenched day and every frost-filled night; to know that childhood is special because it dies not last forever; to have friends, like Aiden and Roxy, who will not look at me strangely, and then turn away from me when I fail to age like them.”
Source: The 1,000 Year Old Boy
“I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drenched day and every frost-filled night; to know that childhood is special because it does not last forever;”
Source: The 1,000 Year Old Boy