I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.”
“I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!”
“I want to be careful about how much time I’m spending thinking about ‘what was’ or ‘what might be,’ for in doing so I will spend my life missing ‘what is.”
“I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.”
“I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes you in some directions that haven't been explored quite as much with the character.”
“I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something in front of me something more inspiring than just eating breakfast you know.”
“I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.”
“I want to be challenged. Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box.”
“I want to be chosen every day — even when I’m not at my best.”
Source: She Spoke — Finally: The truth they never wrote about us: Inspirational Prose
“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
Source: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
“I want to be clear that by itself, positive thinking never works. Many socalled positive thinkers have felt negative most of their lives, and now they’re trying to think positively. They are in a polarized state in which they are trying to think one way in order to override how they feel inside of them. They consciously think one way, but they are being the opposite. When the mind and body are in opposition, change will never happen.”
Source: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
“I want to be clear that when you mention the Republican critique of President Obama, that is not President-elect Trump's critique, right? So you have a real clash within the Republican Party, and I think within the Trump administration, about how to develop policy toward Russia.”
“I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.”
“I want to be clear. Who knows if [ Donald Trump] will be a vessel that people will get behind, it might not be, but there is a movement out there.”
“I want to be close to the stars
- falling in love with the moon;
while forgetting of being a part
of the sky who keeps it all alive.”
“I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.”
“I want to be commanding, stern, intimidating, but I am raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. My resolve is dandelion fluff.”
Source: Twice Shy
“I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.”
“I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.”
“I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.”
“I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.”
“I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.”
“I want to be crazy forever, even when I'm 80”
“I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.”
“I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I want to be cutting-edge.”
“I want to be defined by my own essence.”
“I want to be dictator.”
“I want to be different from anyone ever.”
“I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that.”
“I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.”
“I want to be different. Just like all the other different people I want to be like. I want to be just like all the different people and assert my individuality along with others who are different like me.”
“I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.”
“I want to be done with tears, and the day is too beautiful for them anyway. Nevertheless, I consider my tears for a moment, the idea of them, a link to the earth’s ancient origins. I’m comforted by the notion that I carry a bit of the sea within myself wherever I go. It’s nice to think that water is not such an exotic thing after all.”
“I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."”
“I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.”
“I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do. I start every day with a protein shake, with my vanilla Almond Breeze, and my kids start their day the same way as well. [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies. And also taking the time to enjoy things, and to appreciate the process.”
“I want to be Empress.”
“Oh, Theodora, don’t be insane.” Antonina took her friend’s hands. “Do you really think a circus clown can become a queen?”
“There’s no fruit without a flower.”
“But an Empress? Maybe in a thousand years.”
“All I have is today.” She stiffened her backbone, like a fluttery leaf changing into an oak. “And I won’t be defeated by a failure of imagination.”
Source: The Eagle and the Swan
“I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.”
“I want to be everybody, and I want to be everything. One life is not enough.”
“I want to be extraordinarily ordinary. I believe that's the most extraordinary a person can possibly be.”
“I want to be fair here. If we're going to be talking about transparency and disclosure, Donald Trump has not released a single piece of serious information about his health.”
“I want to be famous everywhere.”
“I want to be famous in my home.”
“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.”
Source: Words under the words: selected poems
“I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?”
Source: Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse
“I want to be fearless.”
“I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)”
“I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.”