I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.”
Source: Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)
“I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.”
“I was no one’s son. No one’s heir. Only the boy who kept walking.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“I was no one special, and I was only just beginning to realize it.”
Source: Royals
“I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.”
Source: Shirley and The Professor
“I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.”
“I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper
“I was Noblest of all creatures,
I was the Successor,
I was made to believe I am Dust &
I committed a Sin!”
Source: The Inward Journey
“I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody!”
“I was nominated for two Grammy's, but ... more importantly, I like it when I get a letter from someone ... a person that I've affected their lives or I've helped them. That's important to me. Someone will say "I was feeling bad and you helped me".”
“I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.”
“I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.”
“I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."”
“I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.”
“I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.”
“I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.”
“I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.”
“I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.”
Source: Taking The Reins
“I was not a big comic-book reader.”
“I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.”
“I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.”
Source: Elia Kazan: A Life
“I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.”
“I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.”
Source: Racing Through the Dark
“I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too.”
Source: Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
“I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.”
“I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!”
“I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead”
“I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.”
“I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness … , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference … that was only … pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether.”
Source: Gertrude
“I was not a good student. I did not spend much
time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.”
“I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.”
“I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.”
“I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.”
“I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.”
“I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.”
“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
Source: The Joke
“I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.”
“I was not a little mother or a hot mama. I was an eleven-year-old girl. Now, it seems to me a startlingly efficient way to age a child in a single word. Sometimes the word itself matters less than the authority with which it is spoken. It is the act of naming that claims you.”
Source: Girlhood
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
“I was not a member of the SS.”
“I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”
“I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.”
“I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.”
“I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.”
“I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.”
“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would not be weak, or helpless again. I would not, could not be broken.” -Feyre Archeron - A Court of Mist and Fury”
“I was not a politician.”
“I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power.”