I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.”
“I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.”
“I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama”
Source: Cazadora
“I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.”
“I speak of the power of trying, because I have fallen and struggled to stand. I speak of generosity because I battle selfishness. I speak of joy because I have known sorrow. I speak of faith because I almost lost mine, and know what it is to be broken, in need of redemption. I speak of Thanks because I am grateful for the totality of this Life... not just the easy parts.”
“I speak of the skill of working together, the technique of crossing the arbitrary lines of land, craft, and status, because we must learn more from each other than the simple fact that none of us can stand alone and survive!”
Source: Dragonquest
“I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.”
“I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.”
“I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet.”
“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”
“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
“I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.”
“I speak out because I know the pain of staying silent.”
Source: Where to Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change
“I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.”
“I speak Spanish and womanish.”
“I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.”
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
“I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.”
“I speak the language of electromagnetic radiation.”
“I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: Top Classic Poetry
“I speak the tongues of earth,
I sing the songs of earth.
Forever I find myself,
In many fervors of earth.
Ain't got no single nation,
Ain't got no single culture.
Human am I, I belong to humans,
Come hell or come high water!”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!”
“I speak the truth in a society of lies.”
“I speak the Truth, that's who I am"...This phrase is often a declaration by some, a sign of strength, or integrity. But...There are truths about me that are none of your business. There are truths about you that are none of my business, either. If I were to use yours against you, or you use mine against me, we would indeed be speaking the truth, but it would not erase the hatred and meanness that also describes us. There is no strength in that. And there's sure no integrity in it either”
“I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.”
“I speak to everybody. I'm one of those kind of artists that I'm cool with everybody. If they [fans] want to meet me, it's cool. That's as far as it goes. But I'm the cool artist. I shake everybody's hand, try to sign all the autographs, take pictures when I can.”
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I speak to God every day.”
“I speak to lots of people around the world, and no one would tell you that 25 basis points will make a difference to them.”
“I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.”
“I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.”
“I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.”
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”
“I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.”
“I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.”
Source: Dusklands
“I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.”
“I speak to women's groups, Chambers of Commerce, manufacturing organizations. Just did the Mike Huckabee Show. I do about two speaking engagements a month. I still enjoy travelling.”
“I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.”
Source: Old snow just melting: essays and interviews
“I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?”
Source: Out of silence: selected poems
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
“I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.”
“I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.”
“I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.”
Source: Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller: In Eight Vol
“I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.”
“I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.”
“I speak your language better than you speak mine, sweetheart.”
Source: Captive Prince
“I speared a sausage with my knife, bit off the end. Juice and fat exploded: the pork melted. I tasted chestnuts, moss, the bulbs of wild lilies, the roots and shoots of an Umbrian forest floor. There was pepper, of course, salt and garlic. Nothing else. I opened my eyes. The Proctor was staring at me, and quickly looked away. I thought I saw a smile cross his lips before he opened them to admit another wagon-load of lentils.
I tried a spoonful myself. They were very small and brown- earthy-tasting, of course. That I had been expecting. But these were subtle: there was a hint of pine, which came partly from the rosemary that was obviously in the dish, but partly from the lentils themselves. I did feel as if I were eating soil, but a special kind: some sort of silky brown clay, perhaps; something that Maestro Donatello would have crossed oceans to sculpt with, or that my uncle Filippo would have used as a pigment to paint the eyes of a beautiful brown-eyed donna. Maybe this is what the earth under the finest hazelnut tree in Italy would taste like- but that, perhaps, was a question best put to a pig.
"Make sure you chew properly," I mumbled, piling my plate high.
The serving girl came back with a trencher of sliced pork meats: salami dotted with pink fat, ribbons of lardo, peppery bacon. The flavors were slippery, lush, like copper leaf or the robe of a cardinal. I coiled a strip of dark, translucent ham onto my tongue: it dissolved into a shockingly carnal mist, a swirl of truffles, cinnamon and bottarga.”
Source: Appetite
“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”
Source: And Then There Were None
“I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. I'm also a contributing editor at Popular Science and at Make Magazine.”
“I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.”