I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.”
“I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.”
“I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.”
Source: David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere
“I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.”
“I wanted Kat out. Every cell of my being demanded that I protect her, even though I knew she was hella capable of doing so herself, but I wanted her far away from here. Hell, I'd keep her in Bubble Wrap if it weren't so damn creepy and also inconvenient, considering I had a terrible habit of obsessively popping the damn things until not a single bubble was left.”
Source: Opposition
“I wanted kids to have context for seeing the horrible footage of 9/11. I wanted them to feel the patriotism that united us, the sense of inclusivity, of not discriminating against religions. I want that feeling back, and I want to remind kids - and all of us - that we have a tremendous power when we remember our history and our founding principles.”
“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.”
“I wanted life that's comfortable enough for me, my ambitions and love.”
Source: OFW Struggles Hopes and Dreams
“I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.”
“I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.”
“I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake
“I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.”
“I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I’d never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn’t be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds”
Source: Dear John
“I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“I wanted more than a mere abstract knowledge of my subject, I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your everyday life, to chat with you on your condition and grievances, to witness your struggles against the social and political power of your oppressors.”
Source: The condition of the working class in England
“I wanted, more than anything, a chance to be simple, once again, as I was meant to be, and as I had been long ago, a long, long time ago.”
Source: Look at Me
“I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.”
Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“i wanted more time so we could fall in love.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I wanted more time with the books. I wanted to spend the day in a quiet corner, sitting against a window, lost in words and worlds I had never been given access to.”
Source: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”
Source: Семейное счастие
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
“I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.”
“I wanted my body
To be a muse
To an artist
But it somehow became
A topic for body shaming”
Source: THE CHAOTIC SILENCE
“I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.”
“I wanted my children and grandchildren to know that no matter when you are born or where you live, happiness and disappointments have the same flavors the world over.”
Source: Now I'll Tell You Everything
“I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey”
“I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.”
“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.”
“I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”
“I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.”
Source: U and I: A True Story
“I wanted my friends in the video because to leave a hard place, you need the support of your loved ones. My friends have always done that for me. I had my best girlfriends there, my brother, my guy friends who are like brothers to me and my team who's had my back through my journey. My lead guy was a good friend of mine and a talented artist named Quincy. He's such a cool guy and I felt he would be perfect for the video along with a cameo from Don Benjamin.”
“I wanted my home to be a haven, like coming in from the cold to a big warm hug.”
Source: Conditional Love
“I wanted my life to count. I wanted my dreams to come true.”
Source: We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”
Source: Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels
“I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.”
“I wanted my mom, in a way you maybe can’t ever want anyone else. It was primal and sharp and it made me feel like a needle in the haystack of a cold and terrible world. I wanted my mom.”
Source: The Hazel Wood
“I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.”
Source: White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.”
“I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.”
Source: Witkin
“I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.”
Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success
“I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.”
“I wanted my style to be very recognizable.”
“I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.”
“I wanted my wild things to be frightening.”
“I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.”
“I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.”
“I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”
“I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.”
Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography
“I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.”