I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.”
“I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.”
“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”
“I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.”
“I owe my allegiance to the working class.”
“I owe my career to Paul Heyman.”
“I owe my father everything.”
“I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.”
“I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate.”
“I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.”
“I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing a biblically literate laity. When we think of evangelism, evangelicals are the most resourceful, the most intrepid, and the most creative. But evangelicals themselves would say that they have never come to grips with what the whole mystery of the church is.”
“I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.”
“I owe my solitude to other people.”
“I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”
“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.”
“I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.”
“I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.”
“I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.”
“I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.”
Source: Anthem
“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”
“I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.”
“I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.”
“I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.”
Source: Ficciones
“I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.”
“I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.”
“I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.”
“I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon.”
“I owe them gods
a bottle of whiskey
and a bullet each”
“I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!”
Source: Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné
“I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“I owe you an explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgotten lately...”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.”
“I owe your mother much more than money. I’m not trying to stop you from stealing from me, I’m trying to help you to stop stealing . . . from all stores, from your family, from yourself.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“I owed any positive aspect of myself to my parents and all the affection, guidance, wisdom, and support that they supplied me. Gifts they bestowed with but one request: that I pay it forward. One day, they simply wished that I deliver to my wife and children all the blessings that they granted me.”
Source: I Am Still Right Here
“I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.”
Source: Unaccustomed Earth
“I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.”
“I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).”
“I own a dysfunctional mind.”
“I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.”
“I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.”
“I own a flower myself,” he (The Little Prince) continued, “which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I rake out every week. I even rake out the extinct one. You never know. So it’s of some use to my volcanoes, and it’s useful to my flower, that I own them. But you’re not useful to the stars.”
Source: The Little Price
“I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.”
“I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.”
“I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many.”
“I own A LOT of shoes; I am not sure how many. My three favorite pairs would have to be a black pair of Christian Louboutins; they were the first pair I ever bought and still wear them! A pair of cream YSL pumps that are great for spring/summer and a pair of YSL wedges that I wear with everything.”
“I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.”
“I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.”
“I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.”