I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am old and all I have left is time. I don't mean time to live; I mean free time. Time to fill. Time to kill until time kills me. I walk and walk and think and think.”
Source: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).”
“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.”
“I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.”
“I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.”
“I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.”
“I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.”
“I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.”
Source: Shepherds in Sackcloth
“I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.”
Source: The Far Arena
“I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.”
“I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.”
“I am old, but the Gods still love me.”
“I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.”
“I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.”
“I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.”
“I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
“I am older now and have learned many things. I have learned, for instance, that God allows us to hold on to our human defenses for only so long. At times, he himself calls them forth, permitting them to function for a season in order to guard us from harm. But a day will come when, in his eyes, they have served their purpose and must be removed.
The hour your soul grows attached to that defense-- the moment your heart clings to it too much for safety-- is the moment God rises in his mercy to destroy it.”
Source: The Royal Artisan
“I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.”
Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
“I am older than you can dream, child. All things are easy to me."
"Actually, I doubt that," I said. When there's nowhere left to run, take refuge in cockiness. "I dream some pretty old dreams.”
Source: An Artificial Night
“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers”
“I am older than your age and younger than your body.”
“I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books… these books are my paddles.
~ Dustin Henderson, Stranger Things 2”
Source: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-the-Scenes Companion
“I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.”
“I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”
“I am on a mission from the Hawaiian spirits.”
“I am on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and both my children are in school. . . . I have graduated from
college with distinction, 128th in a class of over 1000, with a B.A. in English and sociology. I have experience in
library work, child care, social work and counseling.
I have been to the CETA office. They have nothing for me. . . . I also go every week to the library to scour the
newspaper Help Wanted ads. I have kept a copy of every cover letter that I have sent out with my resume; the stack
is inches thick. I have applied for jobs paying as little as $8000 a year. I work part-time in a library for $3.50 an hour,
welfare reduces my allotment to compensate. . . .
It appears we have employment offices that can’t employ, governments that can’t govern and an economic
systemthat can’t produce jobs for people ready to work. . . .
Last week I sold my bed to pay for the insurance on my car, which, in the absence of mass transportation, I need
to go job hunting. I sleep on a piece of rubber foamsomebody gave me.
So this is the great American dream my parents came to this country for: Work hard, get a good education, follow
the rules, and you will be rich. I don’t want to be rich. I just want to be able to feed my children and live with some
semblance of dignity. . . .”
Source: A People's History of the United States: American Beginnings to Reconstruction
“I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.”
“I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.”
Source: Snow Crash
“I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.”
“I am on fire within.
There comes no murmur of reply.
What is it that will take away my sin,
And save me lest I die?”
Source: Fifty Poems
“I am on my way, and tell him he better watch his ass!” Jack shouted, and I held the phone away from
ear so it wouldn’t damage my eardrums.
“Real mature, Jack,” Peter scoffed”
Source: My Blood Approves
“I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.”
“I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.”
“I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.”
“I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.”
“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”
Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
“I am on the divorce detox diet. I only eat younger men”
“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
“I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.”
“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.”
Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka
“I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.”
“I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!”
“I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.”
“I am on the right side of the #WeAreMaunaKea protests.”
“I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.”
“I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.”