I Quotes
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“I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.”
“I saw your wife the other day and she is ugly. I know, but she sure can cook.”
“I saw, he was in a different league on a different planet. Everybody says we need substance in these debates, you've got it. You've got it from [Ted] Cruz.”
“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.”
Source: Poetical works
“I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Source: Choice Works: Containing Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble: The World to Come, Or Visions of Heaven and Hell: The Barren Fig-tree: and The River of Water of Life
“I saw. I wanted to start my own store so people would know that what they were buying was real. There were bootlegs around at the time that had my name on the cover, but the music had nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to compare myself to [Jimmie] Hendrix, but back in the '70s, there were some Hendrix bootlegs.”
“I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.”
“I say "cheers" to everything.”
“I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know.”
“I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.”
“I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted.
Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.”
“I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.”
“I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.”
“I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]”
“I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.”
“I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.”
“I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.”
“I say a few good things about Canada in the book, you know. Americans are weird, though. We refuse to look at other countries. Start with Canadians - I want to think you aren't that different, so why can't we do our incarceration policies more like Canada? If we still had a 1970 level of incarceration which was the same as Canada's then and now, I never would have written this.”
“I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.”
“I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.”
“I say a lot of things I shouldn't say.”
“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”
“I say a quiet "I didn't mean it" to the air around me, wanting to take back whatever bad thing I might have just thrown out.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote.... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for...you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for.”
“I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.”
“I say again, lion on the inside, sheep on the out. When chihuahuas wreak havoc, let the dinosaur out.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.”
“I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“I say ALL relationships GO through shit . But a REAL relationship GET through shit.”
“I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'”
“I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.”
“I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.”
“I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis”
“I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will be here. That's established. Simple. As far as what I want to do, I want to get busy, man. I want to rock 60,000 people. I want to rock the Superdome.”
“I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.”
“I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.”
“I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.”
“I say, 'But he does not have you,' and I kiss her through the orchard gate.
It's a kiss I have longed to take. A kiss that gently tugs at Astrid's seething power, at the wildness inside both of us. It's sweet and feels like a confession: I love her.”
Source: The Lost Sun
“i say cardan no matter what anyone says”
“I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.”
“I say, don't cry," he said. "It's all over now."
She shook her head. "It's not the riot," she said. "I've seen fights before. But this is the first time anyone ever took care of me. All my life I've had to look after myself. It's a new experience."
He did not know what to say. All the girls he had ever met assumed that men would take care of them automatically. Being with Maisie was a constant revelation.”
Source: A Dangerous Fortune
“I say eat fast and die young.”
“I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.”
“I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.”
“I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.”
“I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.”
“I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.”
“I say fire her." Arnie sticks his tongue out at me. "She's getting wide in the caboose, anyway. She's no longer an asset to the station."
"You fire me after that comment and you'll have a sexual harassment suit slapped on your own ass before you're out the elevator." I stick out my tongue in reply.”
Source: Sweet Love