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 go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.”
“I wanted to go out in public and not feel like people were judging me for my size, but seeing me as a whole person.”
Source: Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks
“I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.”
Source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
“I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.”
“I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward”
Source: Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
“I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.”
“I wanted to go to him to save me, but he was the one who broke me this time.”
“I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.”
“I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.”
“I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.”
“I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.”
“I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.”
“I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.”
“I wanted to go to the end of photography.”
“I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.”
“I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains leaked out. Instead, I did nothing.”
Source: Entangled
“I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.”
“I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.”
“I wanted to hate you, but I just couldn't.”
Source: The Wedding Contract
“I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.”
“I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.”
“I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.”
“I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.”
“I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.”
“I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me”
“I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.”
“I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'”
“I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White.”
“I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.”
“I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.”
“I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.”
“I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.”
“I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.”
“I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.”
“I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.”
“I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.”
“I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.”
“I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he'd step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without asking, and after making me want him more than I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into my body, gently and softly, after heeding the words I'd been rehearsing for days now, Please, don't hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.”
“I wanted to hear the murmur of its water again, to escape the sun and the strain and the women's tears, and to find shade and rest again at last.”
Source: The Stranger
“I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I wanted to have was drums and another guitar pretty much playing what I wrote on guitar, and I was just going to sing.”
“I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.”
“I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.”
“I wanted to help women and their families.”
“I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'”
“I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.”
“I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and my weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with all the many scary things that were going to start happening to us from now on. I wanted to try.”
Source: Asleep
“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”
Source: The Man of My Dreams
“I wanted to hold on to him as if he were the last sane thing in the world, even if it meant the end of me.”
Source: Borne