I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.”
“I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.”
“I never deny a true experience in one shot.”
“I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.”
“I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”
“I never deprive myself. If I'm craving something once a week, then Ill go have it Ice cream or whatever, I just eat the foods I like.”
“I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.”
“I never designed before. I wasn't formally trained in design, I went to photography school at the ICP. But over time, I taught myself to draw, and I studied different techniques, various hemlines, and then I would take the ideas to a manufacturer and a patternmaker and have them produced into garments.”
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.”
Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
“I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.”
“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”
Source: The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments
“I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.”
“I never despair. I'm just always unsurprised”
Source: The Atlas Six
“I never despised you.”
“Oh, I think you did.”
“I just didn’t think I was going to be able to stand your company. But I never despised you.”
“That seems like the same thing.”
Source: All Roads Lead to Rome
“I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.”
“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”
“I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.”
“I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.”
“I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.”
Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890
“I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.”
“I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.”
“I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.”
“I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.”
“I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.”
“I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.”
“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
“I never did anything dishonest.”
“I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.”
“I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.”
“I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.”
“I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.”
“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”
“I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.”
“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”
“I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.”
“I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.”
“I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.”
“I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.”
“I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.”
“I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.”
“I never did feel like kissing ass just cause someone’s rich, powerful and famous.”
“I never did find out what the hell was the matter. Some girls you practically never find out what's the matter.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
“I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.”
“I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days”
“I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.”
“I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.”