I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.”
“I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.”
Source: Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
“I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.”
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
Source: The Misanthrope
“I become quite obsessive when I get into something.”
“I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then, it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.”
“I become whole. A mosaic, not of muses, but belonging to me.”
Source: Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing
“I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.”
“I been a wanderin'
Early and late,
New York City
To the Golden Gate
An' it looks like
I'm never gonna cease my
Wanderin'.”
“I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.”
“I been away a long time.”
“I been blessed with an opportunity, I'm extremely appreciative of it, but if I'm not enjoying it then I messed up, real bad.”
“I been doing music my whole life.”
“I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.”
“I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
...I went to school high.”
“I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.”
“I been in plenty of fights and even more almost-fights. It's all about posturin'. You just gotta act tough."
"What if it didn't work? What if he took a swing at you?"
"Sensai say, 'Big like door, swift like glacier'.”
Source: A to Z
“I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.”
“i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.”
“I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.”
Source: Getting to Happy
“I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!”
“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition
“I been studyin' the rain and I'm 'on drive my blues away.”
“I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.”
Source: 4 plays: Come back, Little Sheba: Picnic; Bus stop; The dark at the top of the stairs
“I been the same dude my whole life.”
“I been thinken'. when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade!! get mad! I dont want your damn lemons! demand to see life's manager! Do you know who I am?!? I'm the man who's gonna' burn your house down! with the lemons!”
“I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.”
“I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.”
“I been to college, u know? and what do I know? I know how to make blogs, drink beer, and pee on sidewalks.”
“I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back”
Source: The Troop
“I been to many malls from state to state,But I've never been in, say, one this great.I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that's left,But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!”
“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.”
“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”
“I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.”
“I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power”
“I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.”
“I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.”
Source: Dialogues on Metaphysics
“I beg of you, go to therapy. And stop helping Matthew. He's secretly a little weasel."
"I thought he was beige."
"You don't hear the stuff he says around the guys. Beige is a front for evil. Always.”
Source: The Fixer Upper
“I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!”
Source: Last Tales
“I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.”
“I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.”
“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.”
“I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he may be the joy of your heart, the end and soul of your actions, and your glory in heaven. This will come to pass if, from now on, we humble ourselves as He humbled Himself, if we renounce our own satisfaction to follow Him by carrying our little crosses, and if we give our lives willingly, as He gave His, for our neighbor whom He loves so much and whom He wants us to love as ourselves.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“I beg pardon, madam, but are you saying that the Lock-forgive me, that THEY terrify the town with a giant cabbage-eating pantomime horse?”
“I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.”
“I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.”
“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman