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 say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.”
Source: The Dark Tower Boxed Set
“I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit.”
“I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement, death is leave-taking. And then ideologically: a leave-taking from a specific doctrine of salvation and, beyond that, from the illusion that unacceptable circumstances of life can be changed by this conventional expedient of violent struggle.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.”
“I wanted to say something to make her pain go away and make everything better. But, I realized that there was no answer. Bad things happen to good people. Rain always falls on the people who deserve nothing less than the sun.”
Source: Chasing Trains
“I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.”
“I wanted to say thank you, my lord, for everything. If it was not for you, my life would have been very different. And though I have been in peril, discomfort, terror and often close to death since I entered your service, I would not have it any other way.”
Source: Throne of Light
“I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.”
“I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.”
“I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.”
“I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.”
“I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.”
“I wanted to say, "Hey, Pope Francis," but I cried like a baby. I was reduced to a very humble set of feelings, because it was not about what was said: There's a presence. That was a blessing for myself and my family and everyone there to be a part of that.”
“I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.”
Source: Your Brain Is God
“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a gut-wrenching howl rip from my disfigured throat toward those clouded skies. I wanted to say every swear word my mother had ever taught me not to say.
I would have settled for a cut-off whimper, just as long as some kind of sound came from my lips.”
Source: What I Didn't Say
“I wanted to scream at the stupid girl I used to be.”
Source: Time Kneels Between Mountains
“I wanted to scream but all I could do was cry. I'd burned through all my anger, and fear was all that was left. Maybe that was what had been there all along, masked in thornier emotions.”
Source: Beach Read
“I wanted to scream. When I'm with you, I feel I can take what others call my life and turns its face away from the wall. My entire life faces the wall except when I'm with you. I stare at my life and want to undo every mistake, every deceit, turn a new leaf, turn the table, turn the clock. I want to put a real face on my life, not the drab front I've been wearing since forever. So why can't I speak to you now?”
Source: Enigma Variations
“I wanted to see Chameleons, Then I saw my friends!”
“I wanted to see Democrats out there talking about our core set of issues. And let people around this country vote, let - people have caucuses, let them do it however they're going to do it.”
“I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both.”
Source: Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part One
“I wanted to see his face. He could see mine.”
Source: In the Cut
“I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.”
“I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.”
“I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.”
“I wanted to see if I could write a good book.”
“I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants
and a bare torso could speak profound things.”
“I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldnt have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.”
“I wanted to see if you were worth helping,' the Carver went on. 'It's a rare person to face who they truly are and not run from it- not be broken by it. That's what the Ouroboros shows all who look into it: who they are, every despicable and unholy inch. Some gaze upon it and don't realise that the horror they're seeing is them- even as the terror of it drives them mad. Some swagger in and are shattered by the small, sorry creature they find instead. But you... Yes, rare indeed. I could risk leaving here for nothing less.'
Rage- blistering rage started to fill in the holes left by what I'd beheld in that mirror. 'You wanted to see if I was worthy?' That innocent people were worthy of being helped.
A nod. 'I did. And you are. And now I shall help you.'
I debated slamming the cell door in his face.
But I only said quietly, 'Good.' I walked over to him. And I was not afraid as I grabbed the Bone Carver's cold hand. 'Then let's begin.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.”
Source: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.”
“I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.”
“I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.”
“I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.”
“I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.”
Source: Folie Du Jour
“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“I wanted to see the moment he realized that everything he had done to me—every slap, every punch, every kick—was kindling. It built me up into a raging wildfire, and now it was time for him to burn.”
Source: The Road of Bones
“I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”
“I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Completely Restored and Annotated Ed.
“I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.”
“I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.”
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.”
“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo”
“I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.”
“I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.”
“I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.”
“I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.”
“I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.”