I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wanna work harder & let myself bear the wound. even though it hurt a lot but the meaning is I can use this to help me grow up.”
“I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.”
“I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.”
“I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.”
“I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.”
“I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.”
“I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.”
“I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.”
“I want a baby of my very own one day, but it seems that my being male is a BIIIIT of a problem.”
“I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home!”
“I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave
Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.”
Source: A Wave: Poems
“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
Source: Chasing Fire
“I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.”
“I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you come from or sexual orientation.”
“I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.”
“I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.”
“I want a big church wedding.”
“I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.”
“I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.”
“I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear hell out of a thick steak, and yet who can go to the ballet with me and discuss Hegelian dialectic and know what the hell he's talking about.”
“I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.”
“I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?”
“I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.”
“I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.”
“I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.”
“I want a brighter word than bright”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.”
“I want a campfire box.”
“I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.”
“I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.”
“I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.”
“I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.”
“I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.”
Source: Easy Essays
“I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.”
“I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.”
“I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.”
Source: Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century: Empowering Your Church to Build Community Through Shared Interests
“I want a complete transformation. I need a new identity. I yearn for a chance to let go of all fear, the negative self-image, the critical thoughts. I want to give up my affliction, shed the things I regret and the outrage at past events, just as a dog shakes water off after a swim.”
Source: Lemon Twist
“I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.”
“I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.”
“I want a dessert."
She turns and starts wiping down the clean counters like it's her new mission in life. "I'll go to the farmers' market and get some ripe fruit."
"Not. Fruit." Fact is, I can't eat a mango anymore without wanting to suck on Delilah's tongue. "Something rich and sweet and creamy." And now I'm thinking about sinking to my knees before her. Behind the kitchen island, I reach down and adjust myself. Having zero experience with flirting, I don't think I'm doing a proper job of it. I'm only getting myself riled up here.
Especially since Delilah's expression remains deadpan. "I don't think any of that is on the approved list."
"I think you bring up that damn list to annoy me, Tot."
"This is true." She doesn't bother to hide her glee.
Like a bee to nectar, I drift closer. "Come on, Delilah. Cheat with me. Just a little?"
Shaking her head in clear exasperation, she tosses the cloth into the sink and faces me. "All right, just this once. Name your poison."
She isn't in my arms. My mouth isn't on hers. But it's still a victory, and I rub my hands together in anticipation. "Let's see... oh, God, the choices. Your Totally Toffee-Chip Cookies? Your Mad Monster Chocolate Cake?" I stop to think of all the desserts Delilah has made over the years. "Ah. I know... Bountiful Banana Cream Pie.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.”
“I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.”
“I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.”
“I want a dress the color of suffering”
“I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”
Source: Sorties
“I want a forever with you”
“I want a formal apology from the mayor.”
“I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.”
Source: Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight