I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.”
“I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafes were for everyone else.”
“I realize Aaron only ever has eyes for me. That’s what I want. A boy who thinks I’m the best thing ever. Because I am.”
Source: Friends Like This
“I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I look at everything sideways nowadays.”
“I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.”
Source: Trusting God
“I realize, anger is here to remind me,
to protect what is important to me.
I have a choice.
Instead of screaming what I don’t want,
I can calmly say what I do want.
Even when I can’t have what I want,
I can brainstorm ways to get what I need.
Instead of focusing on the problem,
I can focus on the solution.”
Source: Anger is a Storm
“I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.”
“I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!”
“I realize for the first time in a long time, I don’t really feel alone.
- Will”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.”
“I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.”
“I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it.”
“I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.”
“I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.”
“I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.”
“I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.”
“I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.”
Source: The Storyteller
“I realize how really hard it is to come by freedom and democracy. And that it is mainly by perseverance that one is won and the other is kept.”
“I realize how sweet solitude is when it is not enforced, how contented it is possible to be in one’s own company when it is not the only possibility one has.”
Source: Amy Snow
“I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.”
“I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.”
“I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.”
“I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.”
“I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.”
“I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.”
“I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.”
“I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'”
“I realize I have stopped thinking about political divides, about freedom fighters or terrorists, about dictators and armies. I am thinking only of the fragility of civilization. The lives the refugees had were our lives: they owned corner shops and sold cars, they farmed or worked in factories or owned factories or sold insurance. None of them expected to be running for their lives, leaving everything they had because they had nothing to come back to, making smuggled border crossings, walking past the dismembered corpses of other people who had tried to make the crossing but had been caught or been betrayed.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.”
“I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.”
“I realize I should be mortified that Past Hazel was so dramatically inappropriate, but it's not like I'm that much better now, and regret isn't really my speed anyway.”
Source: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
“I realize I was having a conversation in my head that was about three responses ahead of Paul's innocuous quip. I tend to do that -- imagine conversations before they happen. That's why people sometimes have a tough time understanding me and I them.”
Source: Survive
“I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.”
“I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.”
“i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.”
Source: The Wonder Spot
“I realize I will never regain my anonymity but I can certainly give it a try. And it's a lot of fun to give it a try.”
“I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.”
“I realize I'm a mirror.”
“I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.”
“I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.”
“I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.”
“I realize it has taken the death of both my parents for me to finally begin to see who I am, but not through their eyes. I’ll never forget them; my parents I have been in lockstep ever since I was young child, but their words drowned out my own voice. I’m starting to come into my own. (240)”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.”
“I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics, we give away our power to representatives and we give it away to our President. That's what I'm showing with this 2-M-1 movement.”
“I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.”
“I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.”
Source: Yanni in Words
“I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.”
“I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.”
Source: Just One Day