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 find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.”
“I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.”
Source: Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
“I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.”
“I want to find a terrible secret at the city’s heart
then go all the way back and find the first truths soaked into this land
and further, furthest, I want to walk
in empty space forever right here
don’t follow me”
Source: Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”
“I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.”
Source: The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]
“I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.”
“I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.”
“I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.”
“I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs”
“I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.”
“I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.”
Source: John Jay Chapman and his letters ...
“I want to find someone
who, seeing that my love has fallen and broken,
doesn't throw it away,
but who, with affection, picks up the pieces
and helps me fix it.”
“I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.”
“I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.”
“I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.”
“I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.”
“I want to find the answers of my questions!”
“I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.”
“I want to find things that challenge me.”
“I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.”
“I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.”
“I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.”
“I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!”
“I want to fly like a butterfly around this beautiful world, till the last frame of my life and the last click of my heart.”
“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.”
“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.”
“I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.”
Source: Battlefield of the Mind Devotional: 100 Insights That Will Change the Way You Think
“I want to focus on my salad.”
Source: The World According to Martha
“I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.”
“I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.”
“I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.”
“I want to follow your orders, but, I…I still work for military intelligence, and I need permission to travel out of my stationed area.”
Source: Counter Identity
“I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.”
Source: Letters Home
“I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.”
“I want to forget myself in you..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion”
“I want to forget this awful place. Yet, at the same time, I never want to forget the many lessons that enabled me to mature quickly from just a skinny kid with a scraggly mustache, into a young man working so hard to seem older than his few years, as he evolves into early manhood.”
Source: Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
“I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.”
“I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.”
“I want to fuck and be fucked, to be so interested in them that the sex is interrupted by conversation, and then the conversation by sex. Maybe I just want intimacy, the tactile kind. The getting-to-know-you-from-the-inside-out kind. The three-fingers-deep, mouth-tasting-of-you kind. The I'm-hungry-let's-make-toast-at-three-in-the-morning-so-we-can-keep-going kind. The lesbian kind.”
Source: Nothing but My Body
“I want to fuck you like my personal whore. Then I want to pet you like a puppy and hold you warm against my chest. Treat you so soft and sweet, like a princess. You make me crazy, little brute. You make me feral and wild and insane. And I thought I already was all of those things. But it was nothing compared to when I met you.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it
will be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen beauty
lovely because of the danger which works away at it overwhelms it undermines it. Oh let me be only utter
beauty I shall go quickly or slowly but I shall dare what must be dared. I shall destroy appearances the
casings will burn away and one evening I shall appear there in the palm of your hand quiet and pure like a
glass statuette. You will see me. Round about me there will be nothing left.”
Source: The thief's journal
“I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.”
“I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.”
“I want to gaze through my telescope at every patch of the night sky and be overwhelmed by the marvel of creation. You can take away my telescope and I will use my bare eyes. Take away my eyes and I will see through my mind, for I cannot unsee the truth.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.”
“I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.”
“I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.”
“I want to get a handle on the music. There's only so much you can do alone. I want everyone else there. I can't wait until we feel we've got it down and we can really figure out what it's all about! I can't wait to meet Harvey Keitel, too! I'm so used to working with musical theatre people... I'm really curious how he works. He's the only one that doesn't sing in the show - he acts and weaves himself through the show as the ring-master. I hope I learn something from him.”