I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wanted the world to sit back and listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don’t pretend to be happy. Don’t pretend to care only about their problems. People aren’t stupid. Not all of us, anyway.”
Source: Where Things Come Back
“I wanted the world to sit back, listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don't pretend to be happy. Don't pretend to care only about their problems.”
Source: Where Things Come Back
“I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.”
“I wanted them to love the story so they would love me.”
“I wanted them to realize something: When you look back on your childhood, you want to have some stories of your own. Spending the weekend on your phone doesn’t make for a very good one. So go outside. Get some poison ivy. It's not going to kill you.”
“I wanted things I didn’t deserve.
I wanted things I couldn’t have.
Then, I wanted things I couldn’t keep.”
Source: IF TOMORROW COMES
“I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.”
“I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.”
Source: Dark Kiss
“I wanted those weapons of mass destruction on my skin, wrapped around my wrists like shackles, parting the folds of my soaking wet cunt like butter. I wanted the stretch and burn of each thick digit inside me and then I wanted him to wrap the other big paw around my throat like a threat, like a benediction and claim me as his while I came all over his palm.”
Source: Welcome to the Dark Side
“I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.”
“I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.”
“I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.”
“I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.”
“I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.”
“I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.”
“I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.”
“I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.”
“I wanted to apologize but what could I say? I’m sorry but I’m afraid my fangs might freak you out. Oh and by the way my eyes sort of glow in the dark when I get excited. I hope you’re cool with that.”
Source: Blood and Guitars
“I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident”
“I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.”
“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”
Source: My Story
“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“I wanted to ask her if she meant to spend the night here as well, but I didn't want her to say yes. It could be that she was in some kind of mood and just wanted a nap and my question might force her to adopt a stance. She does that, I've noticed; she lashes out when she thinks she's been given a cue.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason why the Catholic Church would consider him for sainthood. I wanted to open up his dictionary and find the definitions for faith, hope, goodness, sadness, tomato, son, mother, husband, virginity, Jesus, wood, sacrifice, pain, foot, wife, thumb, hand, bread, and sex.
"Do you believe in God?" I asked my father.
"God has lots of potential," he said.
"When you pray," I asked him. "What do you pray about?"
"That's none of your business," he said.
We laughed. We waited for hours for somebody to help us. What is an Indian? I lifted my father and carried him across every border.”
“I wanted to ask, 'Why did you let this happen?' but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.”
Source: Binti
“I wanted to ask why you were lonely, but what would I say if you asked me the same question?”
Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official
“I wanted to ask you one day but the time never seemed right, but we started talking and...Hell, I don't even have a ring. ... I'm naked here, bella, just laying myself out for you, telling you how I feel.”
“I wanted to author her story before she had the chance to live it all. I expected she kept her history from those who could not charm it out of her beneath bed sheets or starry skies.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.”
“I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.”
“I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.”
“I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.”
“I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.”
“I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.”
“I wanted to be a ballet teacher.”
“I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.”
Source: Al Pacino
“I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.”
“I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.”
“I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.”
Source: The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome
“I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.”
“I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.”
“I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.”
“I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.”
Source: Basquiat
“I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.”
“I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.”
“I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.”