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 know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.”
Source: The Town in Bloom
“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“I wanted to know that she was all right. It was clear she was breathing, she was standing right in front of me, but a lot of people breathing were still dead inside. I needed to know that she wasn't, and if she was, I needed to know how I could help fix her.”
Source: The Unloved
“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”
“I wanted to know the truth. Now, when I know it, I regret finding it.”
“I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?”
“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by the man of my dreams.”
Source: Affairytale
“I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.”
“I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
“I wanted to know what our family's stories were.
I wanted to know the things Mom wouldn't think to tell me. Things she knew but never said out loud, because they were a part of her.
I wanted to know what made the Bahrami family special.”
Source: Darius the Great Is Not Okay
“I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.”
“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I wanted to lay
on the empty shore of our season
and cover my hair
with the grey sand of memories.
But I began to slowly slip away,
as the summer turned
into autumn.”
Source: The Void That Reflects Your Beauty
“I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.”
“I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.”
“I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.”
“I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.”
“I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work”
“I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.”
“I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives.”
“I wanted to leave Eight Is Enough for the Navy.”
“I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.”
“I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so deterministic, which was germane to the story's concerns.”
“I wanted to let go, drop him, anything to get him out of my arms.”
Source: The Compound
“I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall.
I wanted to let the devil take over, and see if I survive.
I love you, Mriga. And for you, I will die.
Tonight.”
Source: The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“I wanted to let you go, so I held you a little closer.”
“I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.”
Source: A Fan's Notes
“I wanted to lie still with him and let him know he was as welcome to me as myself, burrowing into him in the safety of the darkness.”
Source: As meat loves salt
“I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.”
“I wanted to lift you above me and swing you in circles until we were both dizzy and laughing. I wanted to kiss your lips and share your breath. And I wanted to dress you in threads befitting a queen.”
Source: Ensnared
“I wanted to like her and I wanted her to like me and that was more want than I had saddled myself up for in many a moon.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that, for instance - it adds to the joy, dares you to believe the unbelievable. And why not: so much of life is so dreamlike, so strange, so absurd.”
“I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.”
Source: The Unit
“I wanted to live a thousand lives, So I started reading.”
“I wanted to live again. As they gathered, I felt the pressure of each tear awake to its own trickling sand weighing down the dirt on my grave.”
Source: That Reminds Me
“I wanted to live among books.”
“I wanted to live. I wanted to love. But more than anything, I wanted to be where I was always meant to be. I wanted to go home.”
Source: Amber & Dusk
“I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.”
“I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.”
“I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.”
“I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.”
“I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99”
“I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.”
Source: Twisted Perfection
“I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?”
“I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of closure generates a state of psychological unease that is interesting to acknowledge and examine.”
“I wanted to look different because I felt different”
“I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said I was so good in the role [Earl Mills] that I "even managed to overcome a terrible red wig." I wanted to write her and tell her about the agony I'd gone through with the perm, but I thought better of it.”
“I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.”