I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out.”
“I needed to wake up, stand up, and fight.”
Source: Surreal Enemies: Angel City
“I needed to walk away. I needed to walked away without trying to fix him or our relationship, but leaving the pieces broken wasn’t easy. It was like leaving shards of the most beautiful glass scattered across your floor, because the pieces were too shattered. And now, you had to step cautiously around the brokenness in order not to slice yourself on the remains.”
Source: Where You'll Land
“I needed two stitches after Alex kicked the boot at me.
(on Ferguson)”
“I needed you. I was trying to keep my head above water but you were the person who insisted on letting me drown because your words and action were weighing me down.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I needed you like rain but you were afraid to fall.”
“I needed you so badly in my life. I couldn't ever risk not having you, so I sacrificed having the real you.”
“I needed you to think that you had me, and that you'd won me over. So that right when you think you've won, I pull back completely, and leave you wanting more.”
Source: It's Just The Two Of Us Now: An Emir’s Oasis play by Emir Darlov
“I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“I needed, I needed...you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do”
Source: The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut
“I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.”
Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.”
“I neglected you because I was mad at myself. I was mad that I couldn’t build the life I envisioned for you when you were born. And I took out that anger on you.”
Source: Tajrish
“I neither altered nor removed any part of the original text while typing it…. For me, words set down on paper to capture the thoughts and sensations of a given moment are as irreversible as time—are time itself.”
Source: Getting Lost
“I neither assign and deal nor misuse my thoughts, for only to have a luxurious life. However, I prefer to bestow a gift, upon it, which executes love and respect regardless of distinction since I feel it a glorious prospect.”
“I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.”
“I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.”
“I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.”
“I neither revenge nor forgive, I just choose to ignore.”
“I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.”
Source: The Churchill Wit
“I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.”
“I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.”
“I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.”
“I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.”
“I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.”
“I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday. My presence beside him was even more important in his bad times. But that didn't leave me a great deal of room in which to maneuver. Freedom is an intellectual space. But I don't use it.”
“I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.”
“I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?”
“I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.”
“I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.”
“I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.”
“I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company”
“I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.”
“I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of the movies I've produced. Usually with first time filmmakers and pushing a move forward I have played a small role but never the lead.”
“I never acted out with my actions to show people that I'm getting grown, you never see me with a cigarette, or see me wilding out or doing anything like that.”
“I never actually do rehearsals. That's one of the reasons that I write those bios and if I can meet with the actors I'll meet them or talk to them on the phone. What I want is for them to come on set knowing their lines and knowing who the character is.”
“I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.”
“I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.”
“I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.”
“I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to recreate the experience of being this Albert Camus, Stranger-like solitary protagonist character without incriminating myself in any way, like, "Oh, what a perv!" I want to reach out to anybody out there who may have been riding on the train one time when things in their life were completely falling apart and saw a girl's legs in a skirt and it's the last bit of goodness that you can see.”
“I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.”
“I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.”
“I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the genre known for it. It was more a type of pigeon-holing in bookshops.”
“I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”
“I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.”
“I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.”
“I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep”
Source: A Prisoner of Birth
“I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.”