I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I never read a romance novel. Maybe if I had, I might have learned a thing or two.”
Source: A Wedding in December
“I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.”
“I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.”
“I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.”
“I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“I never read Civil Disobedience. They did assign it.”
“I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.”
“I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.”
“I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.”
“I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.”
“I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.”
“I never read in bed, only in my study.”
“I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.”
“I never read Karl Marx.”
“I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.”
“I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.”
“I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”
Source: Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit
“I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.”
“I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.”
“I never read reviews of something I want to see.”
“I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.”
“I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.”
“I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.”
“I never read the tabloids.”
“I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.”
“I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.”
“I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”
“I never read, I just look at pictures.”
Source: Andy Warhol men
“I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.”
“I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.”
“I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.”
“I never realize how much I miss you until I see you again,” he
whispered in her ear.”
Source: More Than Friends
“I never realized how intimidating it could be to be authentic”
Source: Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge & Resilience
“I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.”
“I never realized how much I loved the color green until I met you," he said quickly, and my heart raced.”
Source: The Boyfriend Candidate
“I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.”
“I never realized how much of leadership is learning to sound confident when you're actually terrified.”
Source: Daughter of the Deep
“I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I never realized how uncomfortable I am around happy people before.”
Source: Reality Boy
“I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.”
“i never realized i lived in a body until it started to hurt—”
Source: Sugarblood
“I never realized it ... That you and I are mirrors'
... 'You look how I feel. Every day”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.”
“I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.”
“I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.”
“I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.”
“I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter”
Source: Seeds of yesterday
“I never realized that the world will give you what you want. The tricky part is being ready for it. The world thrusts your dreams upon you without caring if it is the right moment for you. You either grab hold or live a life wandering and searching for that moment to show up again. In my hands was the chance to make the moment happen again.”