I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.”
“I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives your some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.”
Source: Stay
“I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.”
Source: Stay
“I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.”
“I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.”
“I thought I might spend the rest of my time on golf. But thinking about it now, I'm happy playing whenever I have some downtime in my busy schedule, and even if I had all the time I wanted to play, my score probably wouldn't be very good.”
“I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.”
“I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.”
Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.”
“I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.”
“I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.”
“I thought I saw a puddy tat.”
He grinned. “You did, you did.”
Source: All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
“I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti”
Source: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
“I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.”
“I thought I saw the face of God.”
“I thought I saw you today, but that was just hope. I heard the sound of your voice in the last wave of an echo. And every day I wake knowing you are no
longer here, is another day I must try my best to live as though you are.”
Source: Feast
“I thought I should be stronger than was possible.”
“I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.”
“I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.”
“I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.”
Source: A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
“I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to make: a very talky film of people and ideas about our contemporary state with regard to relationships, marriage, sex, and romance. I started trying to educate myself about filmmaking.”
“I thought I smelled an early hint of the mysterious bittersweet gas that fills Pittsburgh in the summertime, a smell at once industrial and aboriginal, river water and sulfur dioxide, burning tires and the coat of a fox.”
Source: Wonder Boys
“I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family.”
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“I thought... I thought I heard you calling my name,' The crease between his brows deepened. 'Screaming for help.' Letting go of his sword, he ran a hand through his nearly white-blond hair. 'It must've been the wind.'
'Or your guilty conscience.'
'Probably the wind.'
I started toward him.
There it was, a flash of a grin. 'Sorry to interrupt.'
'Interrupt what? I'm stuck in this room. What could-?' I shrieked as the door closed and locked. 'Now I am yelling!'
'It's the wind,' he yelled back through the door.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me. Now it matters, and I find I didn't.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“I thought I understood what's happening to me, but this isn't like being robbed a penny at a time I knew that something was wrong and I don’t like being like this.”
“I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.”
“I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know.”
Source: Intimacies
“I thought I wanted caprice and fire, but it turns out that what I really want is someone who will wake me up early so I don't miss a sunrise.”
Source: Love & Gelato
“I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor”
“I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.”
“I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.”
“I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.”
“I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.”
“I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.”
“I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.”
“I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”
“I thought I was a good kid.”
“I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.”
“I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.”
“I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.”
Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“I thought I was above being a Francophile, like it was all too obvious, but it turns out you can't know how you'll react to a French market until you're there, looking at a small, round cheese coated in dried herbs, or big bulbs of garlic stroked with lilac, or a rôtisserie chicken stall where the potatoes are basted in the dripping juices.”
Source: All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
“I thought I was actually doing quite well - I was on Jazz FM six days a week. I fancied going to Australia and I had a wonderful experience. It's changed me for the better and it was flattering to win.”
“I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.”
“I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.”
“I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.”
“I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.”
“I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.”
Source: The Cat's Table
“I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.”
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography