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 perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.”
“I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.”
“I was a person full of wishes but without a star.”
Source: November Snow
“I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.”
“I was a personality before I became a person.”
“I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.”
“I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.”
“I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.”
Source: Bill Cosby on Fatherhood
“I was a piano player before I was a poet.”
“I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.”
“I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.”
“I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.”
“I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.”
“I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.”
“I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.”
“I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.”
“I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“I was a poet too; but modern taste
Is so refined and delicate and chaste,
That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,
Without a creamy smoothness has no charms.
Thus, all success depending on an ear,
And thinking I might purchase it too dear,
If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound,
And truth cut short to make a period round,
I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse
Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”
Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]
“I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.”
“I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.”
“I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.”
“I was a poster child... for birth control!”
“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”
“I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.”
“I was a precocious child.”
“I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.”
“I was a precocious reader.”
“I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.”
“I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.”
“I was a pretty bad person early in my life.”
“I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.”
“I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness”
“I was a pretty difficult teenager.”
“I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.”
“I was a pretty feisty young kid.”
“I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.”
“I was a pretty good DB, but I realized one day I would rather have someone trying to tackle me than me trying to tackle guys like Jerome Bettis and Eddie George.”
“I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.”
“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.”
“I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.”
“I was a pretty hyperactive kid, kind of ADD. I couldn't really stay sitting in my chair, so my kindergarten teacher would have me standing at the back of the room, because I couldn't sit for more than five minutes. My mom needed some positive way to focus my energy and I said I wanted to be an actor, so she was like, "Well, we'll roll with it and see how you respond to it," and I loved it. It was something I could instantly focus my attention to.”
“I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.”
“I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.”
“I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.”
“I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.”
“I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.”
“I was a princess made of ashes; there is nothing left of me to burn.
Now it's time for a queen to rise.”
Source: Ash Princess
“I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this was of my own making. I could speak at home, how come I couldn't outside it? I have never been able to find the right words to describe what it was like. Imagine that for one day you are unable to speak to anyone you meet outside your own family, particularly at school/college, or out shopping, etc., have no sign language, no gestures, no facial expression. Then imagine that for eight years, but no one really understands. It was like torture, and I was the only person that knew it was happening. My body and face were frozen most of the time. I became hyperconscious of myself when outside the home and it was a relief to get back as I was always exhausted. I attempted to hide it (an impossible task) because I felt so ashamed that I couldn't do what other people seemed to find so natural and easy - to speak. At times I felt suicidal.”
Source: Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood
“I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.”