I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wanted so much to trust these grownups, but I knew that I couldn’t. My heart told me that if I left my mother here, she would never come home.”
Source: The Secret of Nightingale Wood
“I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.”
“I wanted so much when I was young. I was an endless abyss of want, of need of desperate dreams for myself that defied logic. The promise of what was to come hung like rings around the moon on clear autumn nights; the future was unmistakeable. It was always there, glistening in the dark and suggesting that life was little more than climbing a ladder into the sky, where I could reach up with one hand and secure everything that I had ever hoped for in my grasping fingers.
Oh, I dreamed.
And they are not easy to give up, these dreams.”
Source: Summer Snow
“I wanted so terribly to be good to him.”
“I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.”
“I wanted someone a little more approachable," I explained. "What, like Captain McTropicalShorts back there? Where on earth did you find him anyway?" "Just did an Internet search." Feeling a need to defend my research, I added, "He comes highly recommended." "By who? Long John Silver?”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.”
Source: The Book of Polly
“I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“I wanted something different. I'd been using the C+ amps for a long time, and I love them - they're one of my favorite amps ever. But on this album [Road Kings] I wanted - there were a couple reasons, actually. One is that I wanted a more aggressive sound, some more teeth and hair.”
“I wanted something for myself, a cake that was complicated and beautiful, a cake that would take up time I didn't have with enough tricky steps to keep my mind completely off of the matters at hand. I thought about a chocolate layer cake with burnt orange icing and the orange in the icing made me consider a Grand Marnier cake instead. Finally, in a complete non sequitur, I settled on a charlotte. I would make a scarlet empress. I closed my eyes and imagined myself making a jelly roll, the soft sheet of sponge cake laid across my counter. I spread the cake with a seedless raspberry preserve and then I rolled it up with even ends. I was nearly asleep. My parents were floating away from me. I took a knife and started slicing off the roll, but I didn't let it end. No matter how many rounds I cut, there was more there for me, an endless supply of delicate spirals of cake. It was the baker's equivalent to counting sheep, lulling myself to sleep through spongy discs of jam. There were enough slices of jelly roll for me to shingle the roof, to cover the house, to lay a walkway out to the street. In my dreams I made the house a cake, and inside the cake our lives were warm and sweet and infinitely protected.”
Source: Eat Cake
“I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!”
“I wanted something real and no substitution would suffice. I looked to her again, and even though most of her face was obscured, her lips curled ever so slightly as though she were smiling at me. Personally inviting me.”
Source: Kinks & Hijinx: A Series of Erotic Short Stories
“I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.”
“I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.”
“I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.”
“I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.”
“I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.”
“I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.”
“I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.”
“I wanted that bold nonchalance for myself. I wanted to feel confident when I showed a man affection, not just within the walls of an apartment or the relative safety of a gay bar, not just during Pride. I wanted to kiss a man whenever and wherever I felt like it—on a sidewalk in the rain, at a crowded bus stop, in a shopping mall parking lot on a Monday afternoon. I wanted to kiss a man whose presence made the rest of the world vanish into irrelevance, a man whose touch erased every tinge of fear and every knot of knee-jerk shame I'd felt for having the audacity to display a love like mine in a world like ours.”
Source: Patrick
“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.”
Source: The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
“I wanted that, with her. This quiet, small-town life. The simple pleasures. The shared friendships.”
Source: Return to You
“I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.”
“I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.”
“I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.”
“I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.”
“I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.”
“I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing about them. Also, I wanted to say the sum of who we become is thanks to the people we meet. I wanted to make a positive film.”
“I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.”
“I wanted the challenge of creating something from nothing and watching it flourish and grow.”
Source: It Starts with Us
“I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.”
“I wanted the fairy tale. I wanted a love as deep as the ocean, as unyielding as the wind, stronger than diamonds, and as unpredictable as a volcano. I wanted a love that made me crazy and sane at the same time. The feeling that the world slipped into place the moment you laid eyes on that person. Your person. The one meant for you.”
Source: Echoes of Silence
“I wanted the fairytale.”
Source: Affairytale
“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.”
“I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.”
Source: Glory Road
“I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.”
“I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.”
“I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.”
“I wanted the mind of a scholar, but it seemed that Dr. Kerry saw in me the mind of a roofer. The other students belonged in the library; I belonged in a crane.”
Source: Educated
“I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.”
Source: Nausea
“I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.”
“I wanted the next family to hurt, because you made my family hurt. Them emotions were still running in me... Whether I'm a rap star or not, if I still feel like that, then I'm part of the problem rather than the solution.”
“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.”
Source: Dream Work
“I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.”
“I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.”
“I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.”
Source: Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
Source: Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection
“I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.”
“I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.”