I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I tried to book a flight to her mind, but I’m not on the list.
And now I’m terminal: I’m breathing brandy.
I’ve incorporated another tally mark on my wrist.
I get my vitamins in: colored capsules I call candy.
Life is just a bunch of dashes—
Interrupted sentences with no finish line.
But at least if you wet your eyelashes,
You can get a cinematic look in life.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel her aura, swirling about mine. She was taking my aura. But I wanted to give it to her, to cat her in a small part of me and protect her. Her needs made her so fragile.”
“I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.”
“I tried to build an igloo out of the orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten,' which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken for granted when I was a student before. I am not proud about it. Of course, I learned from that experience. I learned that everyone has a chance to change. It doesn't mean that if I am dumbass before and you call me the same thing now. Because now, I work hard, play the game well and strive for excellence. This is me now, a guy with a strong grit in my heart.”
“I tried to catch her,
but she was a shadow
and I was the light.”
“I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.”
“I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.”
“I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.”
“I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians’ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.”
Source: Five Nights With Pharaoh
“I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.”
“I tried to come up with a smartass quote and ended up on someone's shoulder.”
“I tried to come up with an answer that wouldn't sound cheesy, but honesty often carries a whiff of cheese.”
Source: The State of Us
“I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.”
“I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.”
“I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead. "Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, please, please, Bella, please!" he begged. Yes, I wanted to say. Anything. But I couldn't find my lips. "Carlisle!" the angel called, agony in his perfect voice. "Bella, Bella, no, oh please, no, no!" And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs. The angel shouldn't weep, it was wrong. I tried to find him, to tell him everything was fine, but the water was so deep, it was pressing on me, and I couldn't breathe.”
“I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.”
“I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.”
“I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!”
“I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.”
“I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.”
“I tried to control the narrative.”
“I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.”
Source: The Illusion of Separateness
“I tried to create my own Force Field—something that would embody the beauty itself,
a place that could give strength even in the toughest of times.”
Source: Force Field
“I tried to curl around him, holding him with my arching body. His mouth was slow and searching, the kisses hard at first, then loosening as if unraveling from their own heat. The pleasure thickened, hard flushes rising through me, bringing the desire to full-slip ripeness.”
“I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.”
“I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.”
“I tried to deny the difference, chastising myself for allowing my thoughts to stray…” ~ Lachlan Jackson”
Source: Tempt My Desires: Lachlan & Haley Part I
“I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.”
“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”
Source: November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style
“I tried to do everything I could to study Walt Disney. I would read every book I could on the company, and then I found out more about him as a person, as an entrepreneur, and it was just fascinating to me that this guy was able to live a great life with his family but also do these amazing things at work.”
“I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.”
“I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.”
Source: Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
“I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!”
“I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.”
“I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.”
“I tried to do what you wanted, but I couldn’t,
and I don’t want you to hate me for it. It’s my life.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I tried to dredge up the same reaction other girls had around Marcus, but nothing happened. No matter how hard I tried, I just didn't have that same attraction His hair was too blond, I decided. And his eyes needed a little more green.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
“I tried to eat better too, but when you're on tour you literally just eat some hideous pork pie on the motorway on the way to a show. It's a really unhealthy lifestyle: you're up late, drinking loads of coffee to stay awake, drinking loads of alcohol because you're socialising with people.”
“I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was Egypt. I've written a few books on the subject. There's no doubt that the best way to resolve Israel's problems is to negotiate peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. And that's something that's not going to be achieved, in my opinion, without the strong involvement of the American president.”
“I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.”
“I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still hazily when I was a child, has always struck me as the very heart of truth. It is our duty to set ourselves an end beyond our individual concerns, beyond our convenient, agreeable habits, higher than our own selves, and disdaining laughter, hunger, even death, to toil night and day to attain that end. No, not to attain it. The self-respecting soul, as soon as he reaches his goal, places it still further away. Not to attain it, but never to halt in the ascent. Only thus does life acquire nobility and oneness.”
Source: Report to Greco
“I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?”
“I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.”
“I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."”
“I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that freedom and that love that I remember from being a child and spending a day drawing without worrying about whether what I'm drawing is real or strange.”
“I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”
“I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.”