I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.”
“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”
“I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like to draw here is with our understanding of (other) natural kinds.”
“I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!”
“I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension.”
Source: Ending Easter
“I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. Do you want me? I am yours.”
Source: Ending Easter
“I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.”
“I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.”
“I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!”
“I am rageful
I have my reasons
but it doesn't scare
me anymore
Because I know
rage is not forever
It passes
It has purpose
and to deny it
is to keep it alive”
Source: Eat the World: A Collection of Poems
“I am raising my children with the Christian faith and life lessons I was taught. I am equipping them with all of the information and guidance as a parent and hope they will make sound decisions. The most important thing is to teach kids to stand firm in what they believe and not be swayed by detractors no matter what the subject matter.”
“I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.”
“I am rampant with memory.”
Source: The Stone Angel
“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”
Source: Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“I am rather discreet and shy!”
“I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.”
Source: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
“I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.”
“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.”
“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.”
“I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.”
“I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.”
“I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174”
“I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.”
“I am re-inventing myself, writing my own story; changing my name to fit the course that I have chosen for myself. The old woman called me Vianne Rocher. Not Rochas, but Rocher, like the chocolate. This seems meaningful, somehow. As if that village on the Baïse and the chocolaterie on Allée du Pieu might both be part of my future. And before I settle anywhere, I need to learn how to be Vianne.”
Source: Vianne
“I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.”
“I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.”
“I am reaching towards the sun.
A source of comfort and reassurance.
I swear I can see Claire’s face in its luminescence.
She is smiling at me.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.”
“I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.”
“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“I am reading," she replied loftily to his question, and then glanced down at the book.
She blinked in surprise. A rude engraving covered the page.
The gentleman walked to her, his movements graceful. Sinuous. He reminded her of a viper gliding toward a particularly plump sparrow--- the sparrow in this case being she.
He stopped in front of her, so close Elspeth could see the small wrinkles at the corners of his eyes when he narrowed them again.
"Are you?" His gaze flicked down to the illustration of... a couple? Possibly two couples? There were a confusing number of limbs. One ebony eyebrow rose censoriously as he looked back at her. "Reading, that is?"
Quite unfair that she was unable to raise her eyebrow in return. She felt heat invade her cheeks. "Yes.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.”
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
Source: A Change of Perspective
“I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.”
Source: Among Others
“I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.”
“I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.”
Source: The Darkest Light
“I am ready for everything but saying goodbye. I don't think anyone is ever ready for that. And I think maybe that's the way it is. We're all a bit lost, even when we're found”
Source: The Lost
“I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it.”
“I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.”
“I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.”
“I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.”
Source: True Grit
“I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.”
“I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.”
“I am ready to be alone.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.”
“I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.”
“I am ready to burn up but not ready to rust down.”
Source: Dream On