I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.”
“I begin by considering an effect.”
“I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.”
Source: Boundaries
“I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.”
“I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.”
“I begin by not photographing.”
“I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.”
“I begin each book with a challenge to myself.”
“I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.”
“I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.”
“I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.”
Source: Lilith
“I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.”
“I begin my life. I live again. I meet a young girl called Valeria. She smiles easily. She laughs tender sounds that pull at my heart. I’m too young to be profound but she makes me feel so safe. So cherished. I am thirty years old. I bump into a woman I knew when she was a girl. Valeria looks annoyed to see me. She lives in the future. Where the world is turning. I live within the past. Where the people are trapped and screaming and alone. I live within the past when Valeria and I were in love. She’s waiting for the cab to come, her foot tapping against the sidewalk. Her eyes glancing at her watch every few minutes. I’m eager to reunite our lives through some kind of friendship. I’m so eager to know her again, as she was when she was a child. But Valeria lives within the future. I live within the past. Have the two ever gotten along? Have they ever even met?”
“I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.”
“I begin my reign with the desire to put myself at the service of all Belgians. I will work for it in perfect agreement with the government and in accordance with the constitution.”
“I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.”
“I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.”
Source: The Waves
“I begin to describe a three-tier cake. The bottom tier would be a deep, dark devil's food cake filled with thick chocolate custard. The middle tier would be a vanilla cake filled with a fluffy vanilla mousse and a layer of roasted strawberries. The top tier, designed to be removed whole and frozen for the first anniversary, would be one layer of chocolate cake and one of vanilla with a strawberry buttercream filling. The whole cake would be covered in a layer of vanilla buttercream, perfectly smoothed, and the tiers separated by a simple line of piped dots, looking like a string of pearls.”
Source: Wedding Girl
“I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.”
“I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.”
“I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.”
“I begin to feel that everyone is sad. Everything is sad. All sad.”
Source: Solitaire
“I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention”
“I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My ongoing struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been understaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.”
“I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.”
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
Source: The Waves
“I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.”
Source: The collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
“I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.”
“I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.”
“I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.”
Source: War is hell!
“I begin to see how a post-money society would work in practice. When we are in paid employment, we are exchanging our labour in return for money in order to live within a money-based society, nothing more. Both sides in the labour-salary exchange are motivated by self-interest. But when we volunteer our labour for a cause, for a better world, we are not so much exchanging our labour as investing it directly into the world we want to see. Notes for Utopia: there will be no money when we get there.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“I begin to see
our lives are like this--we take
what we need of light.”
Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected
“I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.”
Source: Tales of Wonder
“I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.”
Source: Short stories
“I begin to sense a desire building;
A yearning for this place; a sense of will
To remain here, the sparks of love gilding
Edges of my mind, and trickling like a rill
Down into the heart of my rattling heart.”
Source: Dream Deep
“I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.”
Source: The Little Virtues
“I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.”
“I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.”
Source: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: the courtship correspondence, 1845-1846 : a selection
“I begin to think what I did in my 20 years of life and I came with an answer that shook me to my core I was just a person living inside a body that had no clue what I was doing.”
“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.”
“I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.”
“I begin to wonder at the importance of a name at all. Is it not an idea of the other person, all we have in our mind? And what if the very concept begins to lose its meaning? When dust sets on, feelings turning colors into a shade of gray.
It only takes a few words, a little distance, a little confusion in our mind, and we are ready to press delete on each other.”
“I begin to wonder if he can see me right now. What if when his soul rose to heaven, he caught a glimpse of me at this gay club with my tits out, taking pictures with a coked-up drag queen, surrounded by porn magazines.”
Source: Down the Drain
“I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
“I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.”
“I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.”