I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I never asked to be born in the first place.”
Source: Timequake
“I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
And my thoughts are like meals...I'm a sucker for the seconds.”
“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean.”
“I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“I never asked you to dream about me. I wanted you to consider me.”
“I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.”
“I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make sure that the audience has a solid sense of what the expectation should be of a particular film.”
“I never aspire to sell miserable products.
Like we all have greed, fear and strong emotions and supposedly I am creating projects focused on it to get a quick attention.
Sell something that empowers and raises humanity.”
“I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?”
“I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.”
“I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.”
“I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.”
“I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"”
“I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.”
“I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.”
“I never assign blame in a crisis. There is no benefit to doing so.”
“I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.”
“I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.”
“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in the human psyche that act as fuel in daily survival. If you try to take away some hungry man’s stale bread, he would fight back, but if you give him something healthier and more substantial than the bread, then he would throw away the bread himself and accept your better food. The same is for God.”
Source: 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
“I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.”
“I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.”
“I never back down and I never quit!”
“I never backed down from a challenge before, and I don't intend to start today.”
Source: Outrun the Moon
“I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.”
“I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!”
“I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.”
“I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.”
“I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.”
“I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.”
“I never been a fighter that goes in thinking of defeat. I always go in thinking about winning. I prepare myself to win every time I step in the ring and to give the fans what they want. The results, sometimes don't matter to me. But as long as the fans are entertained with a good fight and enjoy watching me fight, that's all I can do. Just doing the best I can and have the results be what they are.”
“I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.”
“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.”
“I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.”
“I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.”
“I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.”
“I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.”
“I never believed a mortal could teach a god the true meaning of love.”
Source: Between Heaven and Desire
“I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.”
“I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.”
“I never believed in God and I will never believe in it.”
“I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.”
“I never believed in love at first sight until it happened to me. Then, when it did happen, it was as if every atom in my body had been changed, somehow: as if I'd become charged with light and heat. I was different, forever, just for the sight of her. And the love that opened in my heart seemed to drag the rest of my life behind it, from that moment onward. I heard her voice in every lovely sound the wind wrapped around me. I saw her face in brilliant mirrored flares of memory, every day. Sometimes, when I thought of her, the hunger to touch her and to kiss her and to breathe a cinnamon-scented minute of her black hair clawed at my chest and crushed the air in my lungs. Clouds, heavy with their burden of monsoon rain, massed above the city, above my head, and it seemed to me in those weeks that all grey heaven was my brooding love. The very mangroves trembled with my desire.”
Source: Shantaram
“I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.”
“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.”
“I never believed in the danger of a third world war.”
“I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.”