I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.”
Source: Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century
“I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...”
“I treni sono come l’estate, avvicinano le persone per la durata di un tempo fuggitivo e insolito”
Source: La libertà viaggia in treno
“I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.”
“I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it.”
“I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.”
“I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I went to meetings and my son came with me. The best thing was that I could eat what I wanted and still lose weight. Slow and steady, I was getting my pre-pregnancy body back.”
“I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.”
Source: The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber
“I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.”
“I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.”
“I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.”
“I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.”
“I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.”
“I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.”
“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
“I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.”
“I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.”
“I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.”
“I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?”
“I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.”
“I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it... that is critical.”
“I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.”
“I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.”
“I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.”
“I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.”
Source: Bite Me
“I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of the sky with her fingers. And her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place where I was from.”
Source: Beautiful Redemption
“I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually saying the right words.”
Source: Shadow Kiss
“I tried desperately to remember her, only to realize that despite love, a face long not seen finally fades.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.”
“I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.”
“I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.”
Source: Selected poems
“I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.”
“I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me.
That hurt my feelings.”
Source: 600 Hours of Edward
“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”
“I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.”
“I tried explaining, but like always, it went unheard.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I tried explaining, but my voice wasn’t heard. How is that fair? I wondered to myself—why wasn’t my voice heard and why do the good kids always get in trouble for defending themselves?”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.”
“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.”
“I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.”
“I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.”
“I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.”
“I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.”
Source: The Future of Us
“I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.”
“I tried having two purses, one for personal things and one for work things. (Yes, I know: The second purse is usually called a briefcase).) This system works for most people but not for me, and for a fairly obvious reason, which I've already disclosed: I am not an organized human being.”
Source: I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.”
“I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me.”
“I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.”
“I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.”
Source: Sweethearts