I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching”
Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir
“I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.”
“I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.”
Source: Mark Twain Speaking
“I am telling everyone!”
Source: Sarah Luger
“I am telling everyone!" -Sarah's last words to her killer.”
Source: Sarah Luger
“I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.”
“I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.”
“I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing -- I won't let you down. I promise.”
“I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?”
“I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.”
“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
Source: Homer & Langley: A Novel
“I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...”
“I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.”
“I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.”
Source: The Penelopiad
“I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]”
“I am terminally curious, so I tend to be attracted to the shiny. That's a mixed blessing, as sometimes it means that I can end up right on the cutting edge, but sometimes it can result in wild goose chases as well. Either way, it makes life interesting!”
“I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.”
“I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.”
“I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.”
“I am terrible at relationships.”
“I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!”
“I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.”
“I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.”
“I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.”
“I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.”
“I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.”
Source: Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner
“I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.”
“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.”
“I am terrified by the horrors that lurk all around me. But it would do me good to remember that those same horrors are terrified by the God who resides within me.”
“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I am terrified of being bored.”
“I am terrified of being honest”
“I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.”
“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”
Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir
“I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!”
“I am terrified that I am going to raise glass children in a world of hammers. I see the way kids are raised today. Insulated from failure. Protected from pain. Given trophies just for breathing. It is the most dangerous thing you can do to a human being.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.”
Source: Daughter of the Blood
“I am thankful and blessed to be in a position where I have learned as much from those that have taught me as I have from those that I continue to teach.”
Source: Inner Peace Outer Abundance
“I am thankful for all blessings and lessons learned that have given me peace and solace which I try to share with great humility and humbleness.”
“I am thankful for all circumstances.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.”
“I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!”
“I am thankful for every breath I take, I am perfectly aware that every time I take a breath someone somewhere loses it”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“I am thankful for independent radiation researchers.”
“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”