I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“I realize many wonderful things about language - "realize" in the sense of feeling or understanding intuitively: I realize such things most often when I am greatly concerned with another person's feelings. I think such realization is one gift which human beings may give each other. I'm not much good at analysis or scholarly efforts with language, probably because I don't value them as much as I value understanding, which is informed by that which is deeply felt before it is examined.”
Source: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
“I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.”
Source: The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
“I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.”
Source: The photographs of Dorothea Lange
“I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.”
“I realize my life here is much richer than I ever could have imagined. [Why one Canadian immigrant to Italy stays]”
Source: A Zany Slice of Italy
“I realize my need to be liked or my need for strangers to rate me well, even with their words and their thoughts, I'm not alone in that, and the whole thing is set up culturally so we feel that way.”
“I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.”
“I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.”
“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
Source: Reached
“I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.”
“I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.”
“I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven’t mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my path... and one day that path... will take me to her.”
Source: The Garden of Words
“I realize now that a happy mother might very well make a joyful child.”
Source: Home to Big Stone Gap
“I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that I was very rarely in any assumed complicity with a writer or the world she created. It meant that I was almost always lost, and always foreign, and always had to make my way through with the only tool I had: continuing to read.”
Source: How to Read Now
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
“I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.”
“I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.”
“I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.”
“I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“I realize now that some people did me a favor by double crossing me. Had the situation not turned out the way it did, I may not have ever found something else that I didn't know I needed.”
“I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.”
“I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.”
“I realize now, the life
of an étranger is much like being the only child of older parents who hold tons of cocktail parties. You’re embarrassed for being there and it’s obvious you stand out. You’re treated (often) like a child. You don’t know the formal codes and you’re learning on the fly. Since you assume people are feigning interest in you, you pick up tics and quick-witted dodges to make yourself more endearing or to better hide your deficiencies. And in the end, you go to your room exhausted, not really sure if you had a good time, not really sure why you were there in the first place, but content nonetheless.”
Source: Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
“I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.”
“I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.”
“I realize political credibility is important in this world,but it's more important to be faithful to God.”
“I realize something. I haven't had a single flashback or panic attack since I stepped inside the house. It's so cut off from the outside world, so cocooned, I feel utterly safe. A line from my favorite movie floats into my head. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there.”
Source: The Girl Before
“I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.”
“I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!”
“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”
Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.”
“I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.”
“I realize that as quick as you go up, you can really come down that quick. And we've seen it happen with others.”
“I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.”
“I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.”
“I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem
to contain it. But I need the stupid things.”
“I realize that even in the worst of times there’s always a ray of hope.”
Source: Midnight Sun
“I realize that even through the hard times I’m sure we’ll face, I’ll never be able to walk away from her. -Micha”
“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you.”
“I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.”
“I realize that, here on earth, not everyone was meant to stay in our lives for extended lengths of time. I have to remind myself of that because basically I want everyone I care for to always be a part of my string of pearls. Some folks just breeze through; others settle in for a season and then move on; a few hunker down for the long haul. Those who settle in for a lifetime do so not necessarily because they are braver, more loving, or ever more loyal, but because they were meant to. It was part of the plan. So those who have left us must also be considered part of the ultimate plan.”
Source: I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God
“I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews
“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.”
“I realize that I am never going to grow up.”
“I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.”
“I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.”