I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.”
“I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.”
“I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.”
Source: Naked at Lunch: The Adventures of a Reluctant Nudist
“I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.”
“I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.”
“I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.”
“I never write a play with an eye to film.”
“I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.”
“I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.”
“I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.”
“I never write anything down. I write onstage.”
“I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.”
“I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.”
“I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.”
“I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.”
“I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.”
“I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.”
Source: Great Speeches
“I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.”
“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own.”
“I never write with an actor in mind - never.”
“I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the capital M form of the word but I do hope it makes people ask themselves questions about what they think.”
“I never write with particular actors in mind.”
“I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write … This is a true freestyle in general. I put a beat, I said some stuff, I retain ideas, I do it again, with a particular intonation, I test, and especially I record live.”
“I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.”
“I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.”
“I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.”
“I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.”
“I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.”
“I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.”
“I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.”
“I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.”
“I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell.”
“I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.”
“I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.”
“I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.”
“I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.”
Source: Secret Power
“I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.”
“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument.”
“I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.”
“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”
“I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.”
“I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college.”
“I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.”
“I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.”
“I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.”
“I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.”
“I never, ever in my life tried to be outrageous. I've only ever tried to say what was truly on my mind and not pull punches about it.”
“I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.”