I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.”
“I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.”
“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.”
“I am one of them.
I am also Rachel.
I am Risika”
Source: In the Forests of the Night
“I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.”
“I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.”
“I am one of those creatures that can swim in the dark ocean but also walk on the sunny shore. Feeling everything very deeply but also able to become incredibly shallow when needed. Swim in the ocean, wade at the shoreline. Both are familiar spaces. But the nightmare is found in the fact that both these spaces are felt very deeply: everything is indeed everything; but then nothing is also everything! To feel nothing is still EVERYTHING. But I know it's not just me, I know there are others... some of us feel everything in everything; but also in nothing at all. Even in absolute silence there is a scream that only we can hear.”
“I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.”
“I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.”
“I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.”
Source: Jacques Derrida
“I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.”
Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity
“I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing”
“I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it”
Source: Crime and Mr. Campion
“I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.”
Source: A House is Not a Home
“I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.”
“I am one of those people who is never satisfied, ... When I was a little kid, I made a spaceship out of a refrigerator box, and I was pissed off that it wouldn't fly. Couldn't be happy with it. It was pretty cool, too.”
“I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.”
“I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.”
“I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.”
“I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.”
“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.”
“I am one of those serious women.”
Source: Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
“I am one of those servants – butlers usually – who respectfully points out when their master is about to do something stupid: "You should probably only burn the document once the blackmail has been completed, m' lady.”
Source: Submarine
“I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.”
“I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.”
“I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.”
“I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.”
“I am one of those who came in search of light but fell in love with darkness.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824
“I am one of those who firmly believe that our cities thrive at the expense of our villages; that our industries exploit agriculture.”
Source: I Too Had a Dream
“I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.”
Source: Complete Essays
“I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
“I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.”
“I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“I am one of your biggest fans (Barack Obama), if not the biggest, and have been since the inception of your campaign....It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass...You're so handsome that I can't speak properly.”
“I am one
one only
one still
one who can do something
not everything
but not nothing.
I am one
one only
one still
one who can join with others
who are doing something
same lane
different lanes
leading
following
making noise
making fun
making art
making love
making a difference.”
“I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“I am one strong sneeze away from a full-on breakdown at any moment”
Source: The Bound Worlds
“I am one that had rather go with Sir Priest than Sir Knight.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“I am one thing, my writings are another.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.”
“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.”
“I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.”
“I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.”
Source: All Things Are Possible Through Prayer
“I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.”
“I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.”