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 prove I was the best fighter in the world.”
“I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.”
“I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.”
“I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.”
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
“I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.”
“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”
Source: Chains
“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”
Source: Take Me Tomorrow
“I wanted to punch something.
Wanted to scream.
Wanted to run away.
Instead, I went to my center,
my heart,
where I purged my raging emotions.
I pleaded for answers,
when suddenly a gentle calm
washed over me
Love wrapping limbs around me,
I found an inner peace.
Serenity. All within.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.”
“I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."”
“I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.”
“I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.”
“I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.”
“I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.”
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.”
“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.”
“I wanted to quit because I was suffering. That was not a good enough reason.”
“I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.”
“I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.”
Source: The Lady Loves to Strip
“I wanted to reach over and touch the place where he was tattooed, to see if he was still alive. He's layin' awful quiet, I told myself, I ought to touch him to see he's still alive... that's a lie. I know he's still alive. That ain't the reason I want to touch him. I want to touch him because he's a man. That's a lie too. There's other men around. I could touch them. I want to touch him because I'm one of these queers! But that's a lie too. That's one fear hiding behind another. If I was one of these queers I'd want to do other things with him. I just want to touch him because he's who he is.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.”
Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.”
“I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.”
“I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.”
“I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.”
“I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.”
“I wanted to remember what you felt like,’ Kai’s words from earlier that day sank in his mind and rippled in his body, like a rock thrown on a deep lake, stirring up the waters that had remained calm right until that moment. Ren had never forgotten what his past lover felt like. Kai was a breath of fresh air, nourishing the fire within, making Ren burn bright… but Ren had always feared losing control. He feared becoming a flame too big, too dangerous and frightening that could burn Kai to the bone.
That was why he had promised himself to keep away from his heart.”
Source: Potions and Arsons
“I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.”
“I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.”
“I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.”
“I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.”
“I wanted to resist, allowing the night to go on forever. As we walked along the beach, I pressed my feet into the sand firmly, leaving an impression deep enough to last a lifetime.
And I did not look back...”
Source: Finding Parker
“I wanted to rest my eyes on green meadows. I wanted to sit on green grass under the shade of a green tree. I wanted to eat cool green salads. I longed for arugula tossed with olive oil and parmesan, for asparagus tips dripping with melted butter, for a salad of sweet and bitter green leaves. Most of all, I longed for fish and parsley soup.”
Source: Bitter Greens
“I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.”
“I wanted to retain the right to disappear. Remaining in place, nesting -- it sets off fears that somebody would yank me away. To counter it, I had to flee. I had to reassure myself that I still knew how to escape.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“I wanted to retire from all that, but I guess my breasts still have a career, and I'm just tagging along with them.”
“I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.”
Source: Dangerous corner
“I wanted to rewind time to feel those brief seconds again because I will never going to get the chance to feel that again.”
Source: If There's No Tomorrow
“I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.”
“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
“I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
“I wanted to run away
From all of my problems
I wanted to find a zone
Where I could just be alone
I felt like people
Were out to get me
I was defensive and scared
Felt like no one cared
We tend to shut down
And push others away
When we feel pain
Its always been the same”
Source: A Maniac Did
“I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
“I wanted to run away from everything, I say simply. I wanted to disappear. To leave it all behind and make a new life for myself.”
Source: One Good Thing
“I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.”
“I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start; people don't want to hear about how your heart has melted into the dirt under your house.”
“I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.”
“I wanted to say "don't leave me," but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.”
Source: I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection