I Quotes
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“I never could figure out how those people like Bukowski could be both carousers and writers at the same time, because to me writing takes as much destructive energy as it takes to be a really good professional drunk.”
“I never could find an electrical data sheet for the unmarked hollow metal tubes I found in the 100 amp fuse holders at the Desoto Solar Farm. They were a mystery!”
“I never could get a proper job.”
“I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.”
“I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.”
“I never could guess your weight, baby.”
“I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.”
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.”
“I never could have guessed that living outside would end up meaning I'd use the word family in so many different ways, with so many different kinds of people since I left home. The word family will never feel the same as it once did, or maybe it never quite fit.”
Source: Wandering Stars
“I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.”
“I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.”
“I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author
“I never could make out what those damned dots meant.”
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.”
“I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.”
“I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.”
“I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.”
“I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.”
“I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.”
“I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.”
“I never count calories, but I eat so well.”
“I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.”
“I never count my money. I think that's your job.”
“I never counted on you, lass. You are strong, honorable, clever, shrewd, beautiful, and resilient. You doona ever quit, and you doona ever give up. So why give up on me?”
Source: Darkest Flame: Part 4
“I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.”
“I never cried in front of anyone and never laughed behind anyone.”
“I never cry about what I don't have. I'm always positive.”
“I never cry at the normal stuff. I cry if So You Think You Can Dance doesn't record on the DVR, or if a boy I shared my first kiss with has gone weird on me. But even then, I don't cry instantly. It wells up, pools under my skin, creates a clot. And then I'll, like, spill potato chips all over the kitchen floor, and the clot will break open and I'll cry over Ruffles, but not real life.”
Source: Nate Expectations
“I never cry at the theatre. It seems to me that I feel things far too deeply, too deep down in my heart, to---to splash on top!”
Source: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.”
“I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.”
“I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!”
“I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.”
“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”
“I never dared to hope for someone who challenged
and respected me, knew me at my worst and still coaxed out my best. And yet I had found that in the unlikeliest of places and most inconvenient of people. Wasn’t that enough to fight for? Could I live with knowing that I’d left him standing in the shadows . . . waiting for me?
I couldn’t. And that was all the answer I needed.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up. “So let’s say Friday night?”
Source: City of Bones
“I never date anyone my cat doesn't like.”
“I never dated much in high school or college.”
“I never dated Wilmer Valderrama. I never dated Danny Masterson. They're like my brothers. That's disgusting. That's wrong.”
“I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.”
Source: The Marvellous Land of Oz
“I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.”
“I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better.”
“I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.”
“I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.”
“I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.”
“I never defeated a healthy opponent.”
“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”
“I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.”
“I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words. But I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”