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 stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.”
“I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.”
“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”
“I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time”
Source: Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
“I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.”
“I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.”
“I want my team to play like a cornered tiger...when it's said it's most dangerous”
“I want my teammates to know I have their backs.”
“I want my teammates to see that I'm following Christ. But, I'm also human, so there are times I slip and make mistakes but I know Christ forgives me.”
“I want my teammates to understand that when No. 5 says something to you, that means it's very important because he doesn't talk a lot. If I'm saying something to you, it's going to help you.”
“I want my tennis to speak for everything.”
“I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.”
“I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.”
Source: Olympic gold: a runner's life and times
“I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.”
“I want my true love, because I don't have so much time, and I wanna spend my time with the right girl”
“I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.”
“I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.”
“I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.”
“I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss”
“I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.”
“I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.”
“I want my words to be ones that speak life, not death. I want my words to bring hope, not despair. And I want my words to be filled with light that penetrated darkness, truth that obliterates lies, and trust that leaves no room for fear.”
Source: The Adventure: A Seabirds-Themed Daily-Devotional
“I want my words to survive translation.”
“I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.”
“I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10 hours of your life. I don't want you to ever leave something I've done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn't have to be corny at all.”
“I want my work to be accessible to people.”
“I want my work to be as inclusive as possible, because sex isn't just for some selected group of people, it's for everyone, and I'm open to reading about and learning from all kinds of folks.”
“I want my work to be judged, not me.”
“I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”
“I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.”
“I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent”
“I want my world to be fun.”
“I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.”
“I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.”
“I want my world to start and end with you.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.”
“I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery.”
“I want never to leave this place. I want never to see another human again. I want it more than I've ever wanted anything. The aloneness is exquisite; it is calm.”
Source: Once There Were Wolves
“I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.”
“I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.”
“I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.”
Source: Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection
“I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.”
“I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.”
“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.”
“I want no fate other than what is written by her, For I believe in her providence. And even if my heart is meant to be broken, I want her to do that honour, For I pray to her to grant me a warm ending…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.”
“I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.”
“I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That’s not being a warmonger. It’s being a realist.”