I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”
Source: The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
“I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.”
“I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.”
“I need spirit and pain to write good poetry. If I keep my spirits high, the world happily does the rest”
“I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.”
“I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women”
“I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.”
“I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.”
“I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.”
“I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.”
“I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.”
“I need the comfort. I look for a food memory to calm me and I settle on ceviche. A tart bite, a clean, fresh wave of flavor. Think of the process. Raw fish is translucent, but when you dip the lime juice onto it, it becomes something else. Cubes of white-fleshed fish begin to flake. Shrimp turn pink. Texture becomes color. Visible streaks, almost stripes, show the grain.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.”
“I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.”
“i need the grace of it,
this honesty within myself,
so it has to be a home…
even if you might not be careful here.
– vulnerability”
“I need the gratitude--
not to be happy--
the joy and sweetness will come when they do--
but to regain the strength
for the struggle
to keep working
to make it better.”
“I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.”
“I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.”
Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.”
“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”
Source: Other Colours
“I need the protection of seeming weak.”
“I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I need the sea because it teaches me”
“I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.”
Source: Just Give Me Jesus
“I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.”
Source: The Quiet Singer: And Other Poems
“I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.”
“I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“I need the way he looks at you and can’t stand to be near you at the same time.”
Source: Misinformation
“I need them and they need me to need them”
Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel
“I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.”
Source: The Buddha and the Borderline
“I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.”
“I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.”
“I need this natural place ...
I need these wild, green, open spaces
And wandering paths.
I need the water still and lucid like a dream
And this light in its endless streams,
And this breathless undercurrent of peace ...”
Source: Wild Riverbanks
“I need this wild life, this freedom.”
“I need this,' Xander said into the microphone. 'You need this. We all need this. Nash, I’ve cued up the Taylor Swift for you. Jameson, get ready to break out those dance moves because this stage is calling your name, and we all know that your hips are utterly incapable of falsehood. And as for Grayson…' Xander paused. 'Where is Gray?'
'Grayson Hawthorne skipping out on karaoke?' Libby said. 'I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.'
'Gray has a voice so deep and smooth that you will shed literal tears as he sings something so old school that you will come to believe he spent the 1950s wearing the most dapper of suits and hanging out with his bestie, Frank Sinatra,' Xander swore.”
Source: The Final Gambit
“I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.”
“I need time every day to think.”
“I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.”
“I need to accept God’s love and forgiveness, turning away from my sin and toward Him starting every day anew just as His mercies are new every morning.”
Source: The Bible In Poetry,
“I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.”
“I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley”
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?"
Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders."
"Were you always?"
"What are you, a psychiatrist?"
Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine's eyes on him, appraising his line of questioning.
"Is it possible that the trauma of losing your best friend as a child and the trauma of losing your wife as an adult and the trauma of seeing Laine's husband take his life in front of you just recently..." Pritam shrugged and raised his palms, "You see where I'm going?"
Nicholas looked at Laine. She watched back. Her gray eyes missed nothing.
"Sure," agreed Nicholas, standing. "And my sister's nuts, too, and we both like imagining that little white dogs are big nasty spiders because our daddy died and we never got enough cuddles."
"Your father died?" asked Laine. "When?"
"Who cares?"
Pritam sighed. "You must see this from our point of - "
"I'd love to!" snapped Nicholas. "I'd love to see it from your point of view, because mine is not that much fun! It's insane! It's insane that I see dead people, Pritam! It's insane that this," he flicked out the sardonyx necklace,"stopped me from kidnapping a little girl!"
"That's what you believe," Pritam said carefully.
"That's what I fucking believe!" Nicholas stabbed his finger through the air at the dead bird talisman lying slack on the coffee table.”
Source: The Dead Path
“I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.”
“I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess."
I was wrong. She was really crazy.”
Source: All Hallows
“I need to be able to engage people; that’s where I flourish.”
“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”
“I need to be able to face things.”
“I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.”
“I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.”