I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.”
“I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.”
“I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.”
“I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.”
“I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.”
“I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”
“I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.”
“I am, in the end, what you made me.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.”
Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.”
Source: Mythos: The Myths and Tales of H.P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard
“I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?”
“I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.”
“I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.”
“I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.”
“I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.”
“I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.”
“I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.”
“I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.”
“I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.”
“I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.”
“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”
Source: The complete works of Thomas Shadwell
“I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.”
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“I am, therefore there is a God.”
Source: Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence
“I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.”
“I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.”
“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.”
“I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.”
“I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!”
Source: Nausea
“I am. I think. I will.”
Source: Anthem
“I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.”
“i am... absolutely destroyed at the loss. (--manny)”
Source: Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.”
Source: The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 And 1805
“I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.”
“I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.”
“I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.”
Source: The Children's Hospital
“I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.”
“I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)
“I am; I was. I want to be.”
Source: Shadow Show #1
“I amin you’ is warmth.
It’s truth.
It’s my way of saying: ‘I see you.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“I amused myself playing with the journalists.”
“I. An Agnostic
(__of his religious friend__)
He often gazes on the air
And sees quite plain what is not there
Peopling the wholesome void with horrid shapes
Which he manoeuvres in religious japes.
And yet he is more gracious than I,
He has such a gracious personality.
II. A Religious Man
(__of his agnostic friend__)
He says that religious thought and all our nerviness
Is because of the great shock it was for all of us
Long, long ago when animal turned human being
Which is more than enough to account for everything...
And yet he is more gracious than I,
He has such a gracious personality.”
Source: Selected poems
“I, an unstable and uncertain man, had been steered into leadership in an institution that laid claim to transcendental levels of stability and certainty. Maybe that was one of the attractions, but it would not have needed a clairvoyant to predict that there would be trouble ahead.”
Source: Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt
“I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.”
“I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.”