I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.”
Source: Bookends
“I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.”
“I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.”
“I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.”
“I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.”
“I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection”
“I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.”
“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“I am not a person but a sentience beyond time. Rise I will always in crisis to fortify my humankind.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“I am not a person. I am a feeling. I am a muse for my own senses. I am a body floating a thousand miles per second around a dying star. I am one with the universe.”
Source: Ants
“I am not a person.
I am a succession of persons
Held together by memory.
When the string breaks,
The beads are scattered.”
“I am not a person, I am the antidote to disharmony, born through centuries of mental expeditions in the path of global unification.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I've never even gone camping.”
“I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.”
“I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.”
“I am not a person to say the words out loud
I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page:
know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other
than my tongue
the quiet love
the silent rage.”
Source: Strands
“I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.”
“I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor.”
“I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.”
“I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.”
“I am not a person who is particularly patient with anyone so I am certainly not going to be patient with myself I think.”
“I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.”
“I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.”
“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
“I am not a pessimist. I am not an optimist. I don't see the glass as half full, or half empty. I simply don't see your glass. I thirst for reality.”
“I am not a pessimist.
Just a well informed optimist.”
“I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism”
“I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”
Source: Ramona the Pest
“I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.”
“I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.”
“I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.”
“I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.”
“I am Not a Pirate, I merely watch movies and delete them. Never store them on my computer.”
Source: Pirates of Bollywood
“I am not a player anymore.”
“I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.”
“I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.”
“I am not a poet,
I am a paradigm.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“I am not a poetry factory, I am humanitarian poetry factory,”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“I am not a poetry factory,
I am humanitarian poetry factory,
I'm not what's normally called poetry,
I'm a new paradigm of inoculating poetry.
I am inoculation against hate,
I am inoculation against rigidity.
In a world infested with etymologies,
I am living testament to impossible inclusivity.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“I am not a police fan at all.”
“I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.”
“I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.”
“I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.”
“I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing.”
“I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.”
“I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.”
“I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.”
“I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.”
“I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.”