I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.”
“I never got into politics for it to be a career.”
“I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.”
“I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.”
“I never got into The Jetsons too much.”
“I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes its fun, sometimes its annoying.”
“I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.”
“I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.”
“I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.”
“I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.”
“I never got nervous performing my own material.”
“I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.”
“I never got really good at hockey.”
“I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.”
“I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!”
“I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me.”
“I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.”
“I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.”
Source: My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century
“I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.”
“I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I never got to know the who was the man behind the man I thought my father was. I knew the lawyer only but had never ever seen or met or lived with the pianist. And it kills me still today to not have known and spoken to the pianist. The person I knew was his second self. I suspect we have first selves and second delves and perhaps third, fourth, and fifth selves and many more in between.”
Source: Find Me
“I never got to play with Art [ Blakey], but he was kind and spoke to me a number of times. He said, "You know, the people who are working 40 hours a week. Those are the ones who are really paying dues. Sitting at a desk doing the same thing every day. We're really blessed to do what we do."”
“I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.”
“I never got to thank you for your advice with the Suriel.'
Lucien tensed. 'Oh?'
I looked ahead at the easy way Tamlin rode, the horse utterly unbothered by his mighty rider. 'If you still want me dead,' I said, 'you might have to try a bit harder.'
Lucien loosed a breath. 'That's not what I intended.' I gave him a long look. 'I wouldn't shed any tears,' he amended. I knew it was true. 'But what happened to you-'
'I was joking,' I said, and gave him a little smile.
'You can't possibly forgive me that easily for sending you into danger.'
'No. And part of me would like nothing more than to wallop you for your lack of warning about the Suriel. But I understand: I'm a human who killed your friend, who now lives in your house, and you have to deal with me. I understand,' I said again.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.”
“I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.”
“I never got to wash my mother's body when she died.
I return to take care of her in memory.
That's how I make peace when things are left undone.”
Source: An American Sunrise
“I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.”
“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”
“I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.”
“I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.”
“I never grew beyond that man; I just hid him away.”
Source: Oathbringer
“I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.”
Source: The Gunslinger
“I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.”
“I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.”
“I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.”
“I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.”
“I never grovelled to be included, I let my vastness out, and the world queues for my grace.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.”
Source: The Sign of the Four
“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.”
“I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.”
Source: Freak The Mighty
“I never had a brian till freak came along.”
“I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.”
“I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career!”
“I never had a chance to learn how to drive.”
“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.”
“I never had a checkbook. It used to be cash in hand, stuff in the pocket, or a manager would keep some accounts and give me money. I started to wonder what it must feel like to actually make a profit, pay taxes, and to have a phone listing, and a manager. And also, I was sick of sleeping around every night.”
“I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.”
Source: Bar Nights
“I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.”