I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want my music to do the explaining.”
“I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.”
“I want my music to leave an indelible mark.”
“I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.”
“I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.”
“I want my name to mean me.”
“I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.”
“I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.”
“I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“I want my own cloak. I mean, that's also up in the air that you know - . I haven't really thought about it because it's you know, really is sort of to be determined. I think the success of the film [Doctor Strange] determines that.”
“I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.”
“I want my own kisses, adventures, and mishaps. The next time my life is on fire, it better be because I lit the match.”
Source: My Lips, Her Voice
“I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action.
And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone...
I want to unfold.
I don’t want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.”
“I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.”
“I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.”
“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.”
“I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time."”
“I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.”
“I want my personal life to be personal... And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.”
“I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.”
“I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."”
“I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.”
“I want my physical presence to match the strength I feel within, want to be carried up high with elation, float like a balloon above this day that I love, these people I feel close to even if I don't know them.”
Source: Nothing but My Body
“I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.”
“I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.”
“I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.”
Source: Faith, sex, mystery: a memoir
“I want my prayers, and the prayers of my friends, to ricochet off the rock faces of mountains, reverberate down the corridors of shopping malls, sound ocean deeps, water arid deserts, find a foothold in fetid swamps, encounter poets as they search for the accurate word, mingle their fragrance with wildflowers in Alpine Meadows, sing with the looms of Canadian lakes.”
Source: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.”
“I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.”
“I want my readers to be participants, not spectators.”
Source: Trine Rising
“I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.”
“I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.”
Source: Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes & Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week
“I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and fragile. And I want that all in the same ten-second bit of music. And it just takes a while to get there, and I don't write the songs and then go and record them, I write in the studio. So it takes a while to kind of piece them together and know that that's what I want it to be like. And I constantly throw the bits up in the air and see how they land, and eventually they kind of keep landing in the same place and that's where it stays.”
“I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.”
“I want my rockstars dead.”
“I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.”
“I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.”
Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
“I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.”
“I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.”
“I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.”
“I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."”
“I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.”
“I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.”
“I want my songs to be heard by everyone.”
“I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.”
“I want my sons to learn to make something, not just destroy.”
Source: Giant Country
“I want my STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME.”