I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.”
Source: David Copperfield
“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
Source: The Poet X
“I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.”
“I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.”
Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“I only know that you may lie
Day long and watch the Cambridge sky,
And, flower-lulled in sleepy grass,
Hear the cool lapse of hours pass”
Source: The Collected Poems
“I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.”
“I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.”
“I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.”
Source: My Life and Music
“I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.”
“I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I’ll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I’m happy wasting every second of it on her.”
Source: Return to Me
“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.”
“I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is."
And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale.
The old trouble; things won't fit."
What things?"
The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't."
Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?"
In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said:
"'From far, from eve and morning,
And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither: here am I."
George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow.”
Source: A Room with a View
“I only know what it's like to be an author with social media. I can't compare. I do think we lose the mystery of the author. Today, I get tons of e-mails and Facebook messages from readers, and my goal with Twitter and Facebook is, if someone reaches out to me, I'm going to respond to them. I don't want to be an elitist author who is untouchable. I'm just a regular person, too. I will always respond to everybody.”
“I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.”
“I only laugh when I don't know on what I'm laughing to.”
“I only lie for sex or money or to practice for when I need to lie for sex or money.”
“I only like boutiques.”
“I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.”
“I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.”
“I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.”
“I only like one thing hard around me, and it's not work.”
“I only like sports that Bond villains played.”
“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.”
“I only like to coat things with the truth, that’s the only apparel things need these days.”
Source: The Stork Ate My Brother...And Other Totally Believable Stories
“I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.”
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
“I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that.”
“I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.”
“I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.”
“I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.”
“I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the game. Hopefully, I'm just scratching the surface.”
“I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His Providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways beways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace.”
Source: Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids
“I only love myself because everyone else is taken.”
“I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.”
“I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.”
“I only made x amount of albums in 20 years and to still be living comfortably. A lot of people and friends look at me and be like yo Ra how do you do it? You don't go on tour every year and you don't make an album every year, you chill with your family and watch TV. Everyone else is out on tour getting that money. But I managed to do my thing right with the help of my accountant and I'm still comfortable.”
“I only make movies I want to go see.”
“I only make movies that are interesting to me.”
“I only make movies to finance my fishing.”
“I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.”
“I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.”
“I only mean forty per cent of what I say.”
“I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.”
Source: A Guide for the Perplexed
“I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“I only meant, shall I go away or would you rather I didn't" Because, you see, you can be a trifle confusing sometimes. For a simple man. And I made up my mind I wouldn't give you any more cause to be unhappy. Or to despise yourself. I was going away to give you time without me here, looming over you constantly and trying to sweep you off your feet. And to give me time as well, to think...about my life. And also in the hopes that absence would make the heart grow fonder. Not my heart, because if it were any fonder it would explode or melt or disintegrate in some fashion.”
Source: Ten Things I Hate About the Duke
“I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that’s no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by some kind of process of elimination. It’s like matching a Louis Quatorze armchair with one of those plastic patio tables. It simply doesn’t work.” “Oh, I see,” Bel said. “I’m an armchair, is that it?” “A Louis Quatorze armchair,” I qualified. “And my boyfriends are patio tables.” “Actually,” I remembered, “this one’s more like one of those self-assembly Swedish wardrobes.”
“I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.”
“I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.”