I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.”
“I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.”
Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy
“I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.”
“I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
“I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“I wanted to believe him, but I'd met enough empty promises in my life to know one when I heard it.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.”
Source: A Fire Sparkling
“I wanted to belong to Iris when I didn't even belong to myself.”
Source: Yonder
“I wanted to better inform the world.”
“I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.”
“I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.”
Source: Echo
“I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.”
“I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.”
“I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?”
Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.”
“I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"”
“I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.”
“I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.”
“I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.”
“I wanted to build up a name for myself.”
Source: Basquiat
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.”
“I wanted to call you, but I find myself feeling...awkward when it comes to you."
"'Awkward' is the word du jour," I agreed. "So, I make you nervous?"
"Not quite nervous," he said. "Just unsettled."
I wriggled my eyebrows and inched a little closer to him. "Unsettled, that's even better.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“I wanted to capture moments like these instead, simple quiet moments that spoke louder than any diary entry.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.”
“I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.”
“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.”
Source: The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.”
“I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.”
“I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders was what I needed to move forward musically, and it's led to lots of new things.”
“I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.”
Source: Memories of myself: essays
“I wanted to change my fate, to force it down another road. I wanted to stand in the river of time and make it flow a different direction, if just for a little while.”
Source: The Boneless Mercies
“I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.”
“I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.”
“I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me.”
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
“I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.”
Source: Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect
“I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.”
“I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.”
“I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.”
“I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.”
“I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live." And then I got to a place where I didn't want to do those things anymore.For the sketch comedy thing, I got cast on "MADtv," and that will kill any man's desire to do comedy.”
“I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will say this is a fellow who knew how to make decisions, and made some tough ones, stood by them, wasn't driven by the latest opinion poll, but was driven by some core principles from which he would not deviate.”
“I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.”
“I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.”
“I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.”
“I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.”
“I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.”
“I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.”