I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I aspire to grow my imagination and to strengthen my optimism.”
Source: We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
“I aspire to write something so remarkable that it resides in everyone's heart; I desire to be remembered solely through my written words.”
“I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.”
“I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.”
“I aspired to be the better me of my future.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me.”
“I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.”
“I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.”
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.”
“I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards
“I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.”
Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
“I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.”
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
Source: The Will to Power
“I assessed the situation in the right way. I do not regret my action. If I were to be thrown in that situation again, I’d still do the same. But… at times, I begin to hate myself, and this world, for being so cruel. I had to hurt my friend to save him and his homeland – our homeland. How hideous can that be, when there is no other way than violence? It is brutal. This world is brutal…”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,” so that the effect of surveillance, if not the surveillance itself, travels into private households, where students might otherwise use free time to learn something unauthorized from a father or mother, by exploration or by apprenticing to some wise person in the neighborhood.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“I assist individuals who want to achieve their goals and dreams in life. I love the grit, struggle, and passion of individuals.”
“I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.”
“I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.”
“I associate creativity with independent music.”
“I associate Florida with blatant cover-ups.”
“I associate Florida with Radio Wave Sickness.”
“I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.”
“I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.”
“I associate high altitudes with oxygen starvation, high radiation and ‘Summit Brain’.”
“I associate hospitals with florescent lights, radio frequency exposure and toxic air.”
“I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.”
“I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.”
“I associate night shift work with circadian rhythm disorders, extreme working hours and tumors.”
“I associate professional astronomy with toxic workplaces, harassment and safety cover-ups.”
“I associate so many fond memories with food. On that damp evening, along in a tiny restaurant smelling of mildew and lobster, I was 1,600 miles from everyone I knew and loved. After one bite of the pie, I closed my eyes, and taste transported me back to the warm, familiar comfort of my grandmother's kitchen. She always had a pie sitting on the kitchen counter, ready to serve, and a fresh pot of coffee brewing.”
Source: Riding Soul-O
“I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.”
“I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.”
“I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.”
“I assume a bunch of male babies were born last night. Did you circumcise the ones who wanted it?"
I bite my tongue to keep from making a joke about how I'd hazard a guess that non of the baabies would've wanted it.”
Source: Baby City
“I assume a constant state
of genuflection, retrieving
pills, pens, coins: they flee
my grasp like Mexican jumping
beans. Please do not ask me
to carry the groceries, hang
pictures, dust the mantle. I
succumb to indexterity.”
“I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.”
“I assume Cassian or Azriel has explained that if you threaten anyone in this house, this territory, we'll show you ways to die you've never even imagined.'
Indeed, the Illyrians smirked from where they lingered in the dining room threshold. Azriel was by far the most terrifying of the pair.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I assume 'elegant gentlemen,' such as you, learn such useful skills very early in life."
"Actually, no." Straight-faced, Vane reached for her pins. "Us rakes-of-the-first-order..." Dropping pins left and right, he set her hair cascading down. With a satisfied smile, he caught her about the waist and drew her hard against him. "We," he said, looking into her eyes, "spend our time concentrating on rather different skills- like letting ladies' hair down. And getting them out of their clothes. Getting them into bed. And other things."
He demonstrated- very effectively.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.”
“I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.”
“I assume I don't need an introduction.”
“I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.”
“I assume, I'll always assume,
That is my animal conditioning.
But the human in me is always awake,
To never let the animal be overbearing.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.”
“I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.”
“I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.”
“I assume most people trust me, if they vote for me in elections. And it is the most important thing. It places great responsibility on me, immense responsibility. I am grateful to the people for that trust, but I surely feel great responsibility for what I do and for the result of my work.”