I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.”
“I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.”
“I was a monster until you dared to treat me as a man.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“I was a monster, a problem child.”
“I was a mother's boy.”
“I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."”
“I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.”
“I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.”
“I was a musician first before anything.”
“I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.”
“I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.”
“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”
“I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.”
“I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.”
“I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.”
“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!”
“I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].”
“I was a Nepali in my last birth. Nepal and India are both dear to me. Thank you for your good wishes for my Dad”
“I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.”
“I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.”
“I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. The experiences they had were so different than mine.”
“I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.”
“I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.”
“I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.”
“I was a new person. A new Aurora. I was Aurora of Itchikan City-State.”
Source: Itchikan: 'til death do us part'
“I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel
“I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.”
“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”
“I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The 'mot juste' unarriving? Tell that to your desk.”
“I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.”
“I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.”
“I was a normal American nerd.”
“I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.”
“I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.”
“I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.”
“I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I've never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I've not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.”
“I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.”
“I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.”
“I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.”
“I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.”
“I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.”
“I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.”
“I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.”
“I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.”
“I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.”
“I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.”
“I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.”
Source: JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more
“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I was a pen pal with one guy, a long time ago. I think we only wrote to each other twice. We didn't really keep it up that long. But, I love it. I think it's really sweet and very creative and freeing, when you get to put a pen to paper, 'cause you don't really do it that much these days, with all this technology.”