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 write some words you'd remember.
Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,
crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,
and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,
but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you.”
Source: Best Thing I Never Had
“I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.”
“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.”
“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.”
“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”
“I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.”
“I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.”
“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”
“I wanted to write ‘stay’ on your sides, surround your bed with oceans of salt. I hope he folds you into a fox, loves you like a splintered arrow, brandishes the kill of your lips. May the bouquet of your hips wither. May the wolves forget your name.”
“I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.”
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”
“I wanted
to write you a love poem
But my heart
feels out of tune
So I coax my breath
into the darkness
of my rib cage
And invite it to fan open
Maybe I would say
something like,
"One day,
I would like to
fall in love with you,"
And here I pause
while the tears
that have been threatening
to rain down all day
swell high in my chest,
blurring my vision
"One day,
I would like to
fall in love with you,"
I will start writing again, & continue,
"wherever you are,
whoever you are,
but in this moment,
I will fall in love with me."
My brow furls
ever so slightly,
because that is not
what I expected to say
I pause again
& allow the container to soften,
for the edges to get blurry
And the tears,
one by one spill over
And all the holding
of the day crumples away
And I am me again
& you are you again,
too”
“I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.”
Source: Light Boxes: A Novel
“I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.”
“I wanted to yell. I wanted to claw his eyes out. Sickeningly, I wanted him to bite me again. I wanted Ryker. And as if on cue, a roar to shatter the castle echoed through the halls.
He'd come for me.
My heart filled with emotion. It was joy, and want, and hope. My heart was full, and I could have cried.
I looked Apollo in his dangerously red eyes.
"Fuck you, Apollo," I managed to whisper. "My dragon is here.”
Source: Dirty Lying Dragons
“I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.”
“I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.”
“I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."”
“I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.”
“I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.”
Source: The Book of My Lives
“I wanted us together, wanted them to feel with me the big nameless thing we'd worked our way into, a silence like the presence of our own private God.”
Source: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
“I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.”
“I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.”
“I wanted what he Diego had. I needed to play on a team like that, to feel the love of the fans. I needed the chance to do something impossible and amazing. To be great.”
Source: Furia
“I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home.”
Source: The Lion Women of Tehran
“I wanted what my Christian friends had: a peace that wasn’t derived from a limited source, a joy that wasn’t dependent on circumstances. I knew it came from God, and that it was tangible and real, but I didn’t know how.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.”
“I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.”
“I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.”
“I wanted you to be better. Now, I’ll just be better for you.”
Source: The Nightmare Before Kissmas
“I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po”
“I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.”
“I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“I wanted you to rescue me but you were the raging storm that hindered me from seeing and knowing my worth.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.”
Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice
“I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.”
“I wanted you, too. For so long. It was terrible. Sometimes I could barely eat- sorry, I know that sounds like the strangest thing. But for days I didn't feel hungry at all. I was... occupied. You took away all the other wanting from me.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.”
“I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.”
Source: Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple
“I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me. - Ryan”
“I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me.”
“I wan’t a girl who is fun and loves adventure.”
“I war not with the dead.”
Source: Translation of the Iliad of Homer
“I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.”
“I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.”
“I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about, and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.”
“I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.”