I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.”
Source: Home Front: A Novel
“I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extracurricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it’s not ambition, not entirely. It’s fear. Because I don’t know who I am when I’m not working, when I’m not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there’s nothing to do? I haven’t found her yet and it scares me.”
“I might set at the window in that tower there my chest covered in diamonds, and gaze over the hills, remembering my lost love.
A romantic picture, but utterly stupid. I should be bored after an hour.”
Source: The Corset
“I might shape my destiny—but I couldn’t run from it. This much I had learned from my mistakes
~Ai’sha”
Source: The Jewel of Medina
“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.”
Source: Christina Rossetti
“I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.”
“I might sound crazy about this but, years ago, my mom told me: "We almost died when you were born. Both of us." I was a Caesarean baby, and the doctor who delivered me later told me, "I opened your mother up, and you were right there. It freaked me out because everything was broken and out-there." I've thought about it a lot - could this have something to do with the fact that I'm only happy when I'm at home and alone? Maybe I was just freaking out for two weeks before I was born, feeling really insecure.”
“I might sound like a crazy person, but that's the way I pump myself up. You know how some people are just like 'I have to talk about it'? Sometimes I'll call my husband and we'll talk about it, sometimes I have to talk to myself in the mirror. So I start talking to myself: 'You got this. Don't think of this as Sports Illustrated, just think about this as the best swimsuit campaign you've done in your life. And just kill it and own it and don't put that pressure on yourself.'”
“I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.”
“I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi.”
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.”
“I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.”
“I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.”
“I might tell a story about somebody else, but I don't sit there and do a story about somebody snitching on me selling coke because people know I didn't sell coke. So I just try to keep it real but still try to do it in a creative way.”
“I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done.”
“I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.”
Source: Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But cream? That is totally not the way they do it in Italy, and it's not a very good thing. It's kind of a blanket for flavor.”
“I might've said 'yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away.”
Source: Little Women
“I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it.”
“I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.”
“I might want to fuck you, Twelve. But that doesn’t mean I’m stupid enough to get fucked by you.”
“I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.”
“I might want to start paying real close attention to today because it will shape the yesterday that I will be thinking about tomorrow.”
“I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.”
“I might wear a tux on Monday. Or a kimono!”
“I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.”
“I might win challenges or lose but it helps to challenge my mind and gives a workout for sure.
Dr. Charles John Bhaskar T”
“I might wish to consider that upon which I stand, for in fact I may be standing on nothing which means that in reality I am not standing at all.”
“I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.”
“I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.”
“I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsessed with the girl, I write about the clothes I'm wearing.”
“I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.”
Source: The Misanthrope
“I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.”
Source: Dairy Queen
“I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.”
Source: Light in August
“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I mind less that you broke
the thing we were
and more that you broke
the thing we could have been.”
“I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'”
“I mind my business, grow my businesses, and help others build their business.”
“I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.”
“I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.”
“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“I miracoli sono autentici e possono verificarsi a dispetto dell'ordine naturale delle cose.”
Source: The Notebook
“I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.”
“I misjudge and our teeth collide, but he gently corrects course instead of pulling away. When he kisses me back, all the hurt inside me floats to the surface and somehow drains away. It makes me want to laugh.”
Source: Outrun the Moon
“I misled people, including even my wife.”
“I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.”
“I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.”
“I miss 100% of the shots I don't take.”
“I miss a good cup of tea, dancing, boys- definitely not rain."
"We dance," Diana protested.
Maeve had just laughed. "You dance differently when you know you won't live forever.”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“I miss a lot of people."
And this, I think, is my ultimate fatal flaw. Missing people who don't miss me back. Clinging onto strands of string that shouldn't mean half as much as they do. It takes so little for me to love someone, yet so long for me to move on.”
Source: This Time It's Real