I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.”
“I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.”
“I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.”
“I am such a political person.”
“I am such a romantic at heart. I don't think I will ever write a book that doesn't have at lease an underlying love story. There's just something about it that makes me feel alive when I write it. Romance is beautiful. It's sacred. It's messy. It's what keeps the world functioning (and falling apart). But no matter what, it's impossible for me not to write it.”
“I am such a scaredy-cat.”
“I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.”
“I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.”
“I AM"
Such power in these words and what you put after them can bring you down or lift you up.”
“I am Sudan. And I do not beg.
I carry warriors in my legs.
I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame.
I was never small, just wrongly named.
In every land, I stand tall.
You cannot exile what built it all.”
Source: Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“I am suddenly
Held still,
Held still,
But filled
With her.
I am suddenly
Turned
But revolve
About her.
I am suddenly
Me,
But breathe
About her.
I am suddenly
Held still
By her.”
“I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.”
Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
“I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.”
“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.”
Source: Lolita
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Complete)
“I am suffocated by my own being just as much
as I am grateful for it.
I love everything in this way:
in such a way that I cannot bear it.
I know what it is
to love something so much
that every moment is something
both loved and lost.”
“I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factors that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.”
Source: Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective
“I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.”
Source: Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective
“I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.”
Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995
“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.”
Source: Theology's Strange Return
“I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“I am suggesting that we pay as much attention to our nurturing sensibilities as to our ambition. You are moving in the direction of freedom, and the function of freedom is to free somebody else. You are moving toward self-fulfillment, and the consequences of that fulfillment should be to discover that there is something just as important as you are.”
Source: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.”
“I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.”
“I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.”
“I am suggesting we become aware of it as a consciousness model that may not be the apex of consciousness. If we measure Ai consciousness in terms of humanness, we default into a system where we measure it in terms of selfishness. In my research, I discovered that reference standard may cause us to miss what has been staring us in the face for years.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.”
Source: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper
“I am Sunai,” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.”
Source: This Savage Song
“I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I am sunken in my own sea and
I will drown myself in my loneliness within it.”
Source: Dystopia and Derelict Dreams: Poems
“I am sunlight slicing the dark.”
Source: Selected poems
“I am super engaged. But I will find time for you!”
Source: First Time Leadership
“I am super inspired by the Grand Canyon. Looking at nature and observing what it does even looking at a little seed, is impressive. I have a couple of plants at home and you see how they grow ... it's just like, "Whoa!" I'm really inspired by the newness of humans and nature, I think it's really cool.”
“I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the magic of software, the internet, the computer, and now the cellphone... so it's been a great privilege.”
“I am super passionate about my new business because it has the potential to disrupt the fashion industry in a positive way. Master & Muse is providing a place to buy better. There are many big issues in producing fashion today, and the consumer doesn't fully understand the problems at hand. That is where we come in. We are providing awareness, information, and great fashion.”
“I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.”
“I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.”
“I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.”
“I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.”
“I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist.”
“I am supported by the earth and sky, Safe in the wings of power as I fly.”
Source: I AM: journey toward self love
“I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.”
“I am supposed to be touched. I can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. I am a lovely woman. Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”
Source: Little Weirds
“I am supposed to be where I go.”
Source: The Chaperone
“I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.”
“I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.”