I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.”
“I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.”
“I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.”
Source: Fowler: My Autobiography
“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.”
Source: The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter
“I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.”
“I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.”
Source: The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan
“I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.”
“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”
“I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.”
Source: Stormy Petrel
“I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.”
“I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.”
“I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I've felt that need to want to raise a child. It's a creative urge.”
“I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.”
“I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.”
“I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.”
Source: Signposts in a Strange Land
“I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.”
“I sometimes think of what future historians will think of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. After that rigorous definition the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.”
Source: The fall
“I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.”
Source: Works of Washington Irving
“I sometimes think
since I’ve retired, sitting in the shade here
and feeling the winds shift, I must have been filled
with a child dread you could catch somebody’s dying
if you got too close. And you can’t be too sure.”
“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”
Source: One Long Thread
“I sometimes think that as singles it's easy to bind to this mentality that my future husband's going to ride up on a white horse, I'll know that he's the one, and we'll start our life together. That happens to people once in a blue moon. I have heard of that - never really dated anyone and then this person comes along - but it's not probable that that would happen.”
“I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.”
“I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.”
“I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
Source: Rogues
“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?”
Source: Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford
“I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so much world in it and so much rapturous paint thrown around. I don't think it would be possible to write a book on that scale with as much OCD as I have.”
“I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.”
Source: Living History
“I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world.
I am simply useless and wandering.”
“I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I sometimes think that I think too much. Sometimes I envy the ignorant. I envy people who can just turn it off and be blissful and not care. But that isn't me. I just have never found a way.”
“I sometimes think that life must be a bit like tessellation for some people. You take one shape and fit it to the next and they sit comfortably together – you don’t mind a bit of repetition because it’s what makes the pattern form. Life is not like tessellation for me. Sometimes the shapes don’t fit, or I don’t fit into them, or I’m looking at the patterns but they don’t feel real or right to me.”
Source: A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
“I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.”
Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
“I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199”
“I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.”
Source: Saroyan's Armenians: An Anthology
“I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”
“I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.”
“I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.”
Source: My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences
“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.”
“I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."”
Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings
“I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.”
“I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.”
Source: Paul Thek: the wonderful world that almost was
“I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.”
“I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.”
“I sometimes think that we, human beings, are so stupid. We are too busy fighting each other, killing each other, looking at each other as enemies, to realise that the real enemy we should all be fighting is the absolute truth that has spread division and hatred between us.”
“I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.”
“I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.”