I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.”
“I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.”
“I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with the writers. I'm discussing ideas with the writers and concepts. We're debating and having a dialectic where we are taking a lot of different ideas and trying to synthesize them into the right idea. I'm very much a part of that process. That's my job as the director.”
“I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.”
“I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.”
“I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.”
“I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”
“I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.”
“I never saw a discontented tree.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.”
“I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.”
Source: Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”
Source: When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat
“I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.”
Source: Conan the Barbarian
“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”
“I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.”
“I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.”
“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”
Source: Dickinson
“I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.”
“I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.”
“I never saw a player who had greater promise.”
“I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.”
“I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.”
“I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.”
“I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.”
Source: Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“I never saw a distinction between a man and a woman. My grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin's clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that's where I still stand today.”
“I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.”
“I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.”
“I never saw any good that came of telling truth.”
Source: A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays
“I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.”
“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”
“I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.”
Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.”
“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.”
“I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.”
“I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.”
“I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.”
“I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.”
“I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.”
—A witness’s account of Queen Adelina’s siege on the nation of Dumor
The Village of Pon-de-Terre
28 Marzien, 1402”
Source: The Midnight Star
“I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.”
“I never saw Kelenli, or her child, again. Too ashamed of the monster I’d become, I never sought them out. She lived though. Now and again I heard the grind and grumble of her stone voice, and those of her several children as they were born. They were not wholly alone;”
Source: The Stone Sky
“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”
Source: Harlot's Ghost: A Novel
“I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.”