I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am trying to get to an airport hotel. I can see it. I know it’s the right hotel because the name is shining out from the top of it in 10-foot-high illuminated letters. It is huge. It is right next to the highway. But there is no exit. I have no idea how to get there or, more pressingly, how to get off this road in the first place. There’s a lot of traffic and, worse, motorcycles with no lights are buzzing past me on the nearside. They all know where they are going and are determined to go there as fast as they can. They have no patience for a foreign visitor searching for an exit. This is no time to learn to drive all over again.”
Source: There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It
“I am trying to help myself.
I am grateful for myself because I am seeking help.
I am taking seeking charge of my life.
I am going to recover perfectly.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am trying to ignore each of my thoughts and each of my stories and books... if I read them... they never sound well, but still we shouldn't go like...
to do everything perfect and all perfect...”
Source: All As None and More
“I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.”
“I am trying to improvise, for God sake (Secret: Tell everything which comes in your head).”
“I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.”
“I am trying to keep a soul alive in times not hospitable to the soul.”
“I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.”
“I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?”
Source: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
“I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.”
“I am trying to keep the strength I have gained to fight my fears.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am trying to leave a man I still love, or I am trying to stop loving a man I have left. In one of these I had succeeded, but as I lay awake, it was hard to tell in which.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”
“I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.”
“I am trying to make it.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am trying to make it the best way I can.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.”
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.”
“I am trying to make
the best of it, but
if you want to know
the truth —
it breaks my heart
still, every day,
to live in a world
where there's
no you.”
“I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)”
“I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.”
“I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.”
“I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation
“I am trying to rekindle my feeling of fondness for the world.”
“I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.”
“I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.”
“i am trying to remember you
and
let you go
at
the same time.
— the mourn”
Source: Nejma
“I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position I hold on drawing but is rather an expression of my desire to design and by extension to build. This has often been mistaken as a fetish I have for drawing: of drawing for drawing’s sake, for the love of drawing. Never. Never. Yes, I love making a beautiful, well-crafted drawing, but I love it only because of the amount of information a precise drawing provides”
“I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.”
Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner
“I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.”
“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.”
“I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.”
“I AM TRYING TO SURVIVE SO I CAN LIVE THE LIFE I ALWAYS DESIRED. I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.”
“I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.”
“I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others it’s use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behavior, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.
To destroy a wild thing for pride seems a potent act of domination. Wildness cannot be collected and still remain wild. Its nature is lost the moment it is separated from its origins. By the very act of owning, the thing becomes an object, no longer itself.”
Source: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
“I am trying to use reason and intelligence," said the strange new mongoose.
"Reason is six-sevenths of treason," said one of his neighbors.
"Intelligence is what the enemy uses," said another.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.”
“I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.”
“I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe
“I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.”
Source: The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
“I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.”
“I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.”
“I am turning into the person I knew I would.”
“I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”
Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)
“I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.”
“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.”
“I am two lesbians in a man's body.”
“I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.”