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 talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.”
“I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.”
“I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.”
“I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!”
“I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.”
“I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?" A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway." "While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.”
“I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me—not to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.”
Source: Still Me
“I tried to think and hope for the best, but it didn’t change who I was. It didn’t change my core, my desires, my actions, nor my life, for that matter. Did it matter how many nice thoughts I put out into the universe if I remained a self-centered prick? Did it matter how many “selfless” thoughts and deeds I had if the only reason I performed them was to benefit myself, or gain a better future for myself?”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I tried to think but nothing happened!”
“I tried to think. How did Jeremy usually feel? "Nervous, maybe." I brightened. "Yes—nervous. Not a guess."
"Jeremy is that correct?"
"Yes, mostly."
"Excellent. Good job, Emmet. Can you tell us how you knew?"
I smiled a big smile, proud I'd gotten it right. "Because of his hands. His face is too complicated for me to tell what he's feeling, but he keeps fidgeting his hands. That's like when I want to flap. It's kind of the same thing, except hand-flaps are bigger and make people stare at me.”
Source: Carry the Ocean
“I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately, just to coax myself through each day.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.”
“I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.”
“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”
“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.”
Source: After Her
“I tried to think optimistically, but nobody came. Time began to behave so strangely. Wait and see. Times like these come for us all. The particulars will be different, but times like these will surely come for you, and when they do, there will be no pulse in the world. No heartbeat. Seconds and minutes won't behave. One moment you'll be living through staccato time where everything feels sharp and bright and fast, and the next you'll be stuck in geologic time and you'll have turned to stone.”
Source: Evil Genius
“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.”
Source: Strange Toys
“I tried to think these thoughts but they remained intolerably abstract, while a pain in my body told me what was real.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I tried to throw a yo-yo away. It was impossible.”
“I tried to understand the Anne of last year and make apologies for her, because as long as I leave you with these accusations and don't attempt to explain what prompted them, my conscience won't be clear.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on my own.”
Source: Code
“I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself.”
Source: Code
“I tried to unlove you, i failed”
“I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.”
“I tried to use relationships to cope with my drug problem and drugs to cope with my relationship problem, round and round again. The relationships I developed would make things better when things were going well, but as soon as they began to falter, my integrity and self-worth would crumble as well.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation”
“I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope”
“I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.”
“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.”
“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.”
“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.”
“I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around.”
“I tried to walk with my head high. It was really hard.”
“I tried to wear my solitude less like a burden than like a badge of honor.”
Source: Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
“I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.”
“I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.”
“I tried to write but she was all I could write about.”
Source: Conversations I Have of Her
“I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.”
“I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.”
“I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.”
“I tried to write this story with a fast pace, tons of action and emotional drama, while sprinkling in engineering and economic facts here and there to help educate you, the reader, of the inner-workings of what it would actually take to roll out a real-life self-driving network.”
“I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.”
“I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.”
Source: Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel
“I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.”
“I tried too much and too hard to get people to pay attention to what I was doing, and so paying less attention to what I actually wanted to do. It's something you see a lot with very young bands who are desperate to get a record deal so they're trying to sound like something else.”
“I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me that story of the girl who hated footprints and shadows, so she tried to run away from both. But her shadow was always there, and she only made more footprints by running.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series