I Quotes
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“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)
“I should fictionalize it more, I should conceal myself. I should consider the responsibilities of characterization, I should conflate her two children into one, or reverse their genders, or otherwise alter them, I should make her boyfriend a husband, I should explicate all the tributaries of my extended family (its remarriages, its internecine politics), I should novelized the whole thing, I should make it multi-generational, I should work in my forefathers (stonemasons and newspapermen), I should let artifice create an elegant surface, I should make the events orderly, I should wait and write about it later, I should wait until I’m not angry, I shouldn’t clutter a narrative with fragments, with mere recollections of good times, or with regrets, I should make Meredith’s death shapely and persuasive, not blunt and disjunctive, I shouldn’t have to think the unthinkable, I shouldn’t have to suffer, I should address her here directly (these are the ways I miss you), I should write only of affection, I should make our travels in this earthly landscape safe and secure, I should have a better ending, I shouldn’t say her life was short and often sad, I shouldn’t say she had her demons, as I do too.”
Source: Demonology
“I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.”
“I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.”
“I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.”
“I should get a manicure more often.”
“I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.”
“I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.”
“I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...talking."
I started to turn; then I heard him say abruptly, "No."
I glanced back. "What?"
He held my gaze, and something warm and wonderful and powerful shot between us.
"No," he repeated. "I told her no."
"I..." I shut my mouth before my jaw hit the floor. "But...why? That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You could have had a baby. And she...she was, you know, into you..."
The ghost of a smile flickered on his face. "Yes, she was. Is. And that's why I had to say no. I couldn't return that...couldn't give her what she wanted. Not when..." He took a few steps toward me. "Not when my heart is somewhere else.”
Source: Frostbite
“I should go in alone," Valkyrie said, speaking loudly to be heard. "If we both go in, it'll look to official." "So I'll just stay out here?" Skulduggery asked. "But what'll I do? There's no one to talk to. It's boring." "You're standing on the roof of a train," Valkyrie pointed out. "If you find this boring, you really need your head examined. Just wait here. I'll do what has to be done and I'll be find out. "Fine," he said, sounding grumpy. "Don't be long.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.”
“I should go. Stewart’s waitin’ for me. Says he wants to teach me how to use a sword properly.’ Riley hooted. ‘Can I watch? This should be totally hilarious.’ ‘Ya’ve got no respect woman.’ Beck retorted. After the door closed behind him she realized what he’d said. ‘Woman?’ He wasn’t calling her girl any longer.”
“I should hate her. I should punch her and scream at her until she never wants to see my face again. But as I stare up at her, I don’t see the monster, the one overtaken by ambition. I see the little girl that has had her own choices taken away a thousand times over. I see the little girl longing for everything that she has never had, safety and security.”
Source: Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).
“I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.”
Source: Chime
“I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.”
“I should have a gun.”
“And you think I can provide it?”
“Ask your biker gang buddies.”
“They prefer the term ‘motorcycle club.’”
“I’m sure they do.”
Source: Omens
“I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.”
“I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.”
“i should have asked him more. i should have written it all down....i should have tried to know all of him while i had the time. before it was too late.”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“I should have asked, I guess,” he says. “I shouldn’t have assumed.”
“What?”
He rotates around on his butt to face me. Me on the sofa, him on the floor, looking up. “That I was going with you.”
“What? We weren’t even talking about that! And why would you want to go with me, Evan? Since you think he’s dead?”
“I just don’t want you to be dead, Cassie.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other woman’s before—why I saw her, heard her, and touched her (when we shook hands at night and morning) as I had never seen, heard, and touched any other woman in my life?”
Source: The woman in white
“I should have based my judgement upon deeds and not words.”
Source: The Little Prince
“I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.”
“I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.”
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
“I should have been a stuntwoman.”
“I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.”
“I should have been angry, but I was struggling to feel much of anything.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“I should have been conceived during Woodstock; it’s in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and see what’s underneath. I’m as random as I can be and as responsible as I should be. Attempting to fuse the two makes for interesting days.”
Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations
“I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.”
“I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.”
Source: The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]
“I should have been happy: I wasn’t.”
“I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.”
“I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.”
“I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.”
“I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.”
“I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.”
“I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.”
“I should have blown this mic like I said I might
Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.”
“I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.”
“I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.”
“I should have checked which way the wind was blowing
before I set my sails out, to be safe;
I set them out too soon; a wind came up
and now I have been driven on the rocks;
the whole force of the ocean overwhelms me,
and I have no way to regain my course.”
Source: Metamorphoses
“I Should have chosen alcohol
instead of your love
and the beginning of my mad devotion!”
“I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.”
“I should have danced more when I had no fear of falling.”
“I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I was an atheist, and what the heck, if life sucks what do you have to live for? If you're an atheist, it's just about living, you know? So at the time, I didn't want to wake up anymore and then seriously, God chased me down and proved that he was real and that he loved me.”
“I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.”
“I should have done target practice.”