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 try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.”
“I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.”
“I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.”
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had to go see what Lorraine had meant when she said that my sister was dead. I had to meet Bill at Mother’s and figure out why Lisa wasn’t there. I’d get on the plane knowing virtually nothing. If the passenger beside me were to ask the purpose of my trip, I’d have to tell him I didn’t know. Perhaps I would say, “Lorraine said they shot my sister” and then the person beside me would know as much as I.”
Source: Erasure
“I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade.”
“I wanted to turn toward someone full of testosterone and beg him to be strong for us. To gather up all the stuff God gave him for a time such as this and protect us. I couldn’t protect her, or me. And I knew it. Knowing it irked me, quietly. It was such an inconvenient time for my conscience to remind me of reality. Why couldn’t it just let me keep eating dust and calling it food? These clothes, these women, these dreams, this voice, her submission to it, this heavy walk that made my mother cringe, weren’t they the truth? Didn’t they mean I had successfully transformed? Couldn’t I be what I wanted to be? Between me and God, in the secrecy of my conscience, my being a woman felt inescapably real. As much as I’d believed I could, when in the presence of a man made to be one, I knew there was a natural distinction between the two of us that even the heaviness of my voice couldn’t undo. In the other room, his voice still shook the walls. The louder it got, the more I remembered my first name.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“I wanted to, um, apologize for earlier. I can't believe I did that. I didn't think it could be real and—” “Didn’t think what could be real?” …Your penguin.”
Source: Undercover Lovers
“I wanted to understand people. Mostly, why folks don’t care about one other, just keep to themselves. Why their close friends and relatives would only matter until they really need them emotionally. I wanted to know why if somebody new and interesting comes along, then the old friends are dropped. People’s behaviors baffled me.”
Source: Conjunction
“I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.”
“I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.”
Source: Chronicles
“I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much value the position of counter power. I think this is where ethics should be, in front of power as I said in Radical Reform. The power of counter-power is very important.”
“I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.”
“I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him.”
“I wanted to use art. I wanted to use art in a different way in my life. I wanted a sense that... All the nooks and crannies that we don't understand about the way that we life through our day to day life, and I wanted that shown to me, you know? Not in great clarity, but some kind of physical manifestation of these are the areas of life that are causing you grief, or euphoria, and you don't really know why.”
“I wanted to use science in a way that would have direct humanitarian consequences in interhuman relationships. And now even if I die, my works will keep on creating lion-hearted humanitarian torch-bearers of progress, for ages to come.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.”
“I wanted to use sports for social change.”
“I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.”
“I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.”
Source: Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing
“I wanted to ventilate my deep feelings about song lyrics and dark poets. I wanted to take my socks off and dance in the forest. I wanted to drink wine until my lips went numb so kisses would feel deeper. I wanted to do everything dreamers do.”
Source: Separate Things: A Memoir
“I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.”
“I wanted to wake with you in my arms,” he whispered.
“Next time, don’t leave the bed,” he said.”
Source: The Christmas Cowboy Hero
“I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.”
Source: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye
“I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.”
Source: Sonora
“I wanted to walk over there. I wanted to curl up beside him, lean against him, talk to him. I wanted to know what he was thinking. I wanted to tell him everything would be okay. And I wanted him to tell me the same thing. I didn't care if it was true or not- I just wanted to say it. To hear it, to feel his arms around me, hear the rumble of his words, that deep chuckle that made me pulse race”
“I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.”
Source: 60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…
“I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.
I wanted to, but I did not!”
“I wanted to watch her dance, and I wanted to steal her away a thousand more times to feel her excitement and fear and live through how vulnerable and sweet she was, but…
I wanted to keep her happy, pure, and innocent, too. I didn’t want to ruin her.”
Source: Kill Switch
“I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.”
“I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"”
“I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.”
Source: Anatomy of a Disappearance
“I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.”
Source: Tracy Chevalier 3-Book Collection: Girl With a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures, Falling Angels
“I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'”
“I wanted to win. No, that's not right.
I simply didn't want to lose.”
Source: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
“I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.”
“I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.”
“I wanted to win, even in practice.”
“I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?”
“I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.”
“I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather”
“I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.”
“I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.”
“I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.”
“I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.”
“I wanted to work with an elephant.”
“I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.”
“I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.”
“I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.”
“I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.”
“I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.”