I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.”
“I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn’t think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.”
“I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.”
“I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session...You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing.”
“I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.”
“I was talking to the great Armen Ra, the world's most renowned theremin player, and he told me, "I don't trust old people that do drugs, but I don't trust young people that don't do them." I think what he meant by that is that you've got to be young, you've got to be adventurous and experimental. I'm certainly not asking any of my fans or kids to do drugs, but I certainly wouldn't judge them for doing them.”
“I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.”
“I was tanned, happy, and blowing a kiss to Cary, who’d playacted the role of a highfashion
photographer by calling out ridiculous encouragements. Beautiful, dahling. Show me sassy. Show me sexy. Brilliant.
Show me catty…rawr…”
Source: Bared to You
“I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.”
“I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.”
“I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.”
“I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.”
Source: Red Is the Color Of...
“I was taught by family at ten.
I was taught by books at twenty.
I was taught by enemies at thirty.
I was taught by nature at forty.
I was taught by life at fifty.
At ten, I was foolish.
At twenty, I was naïve.
At thirty, I was alert.
At forty, I was experienced.
At fifty, I was wise.”
“I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.”
“I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.”
“I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.”
“I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.”
“I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'”
“I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.”
“I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.”
“I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.”
“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.”
“I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.”
“I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“I was taught how to marry in Tajikistan before I was taught how to choose.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. “I tied up everything,” I said. “A leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My wife came home, and I tied up her too.” Elisa shook her head. “Get a life,” she said and returned to her task.”
Source: Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
“I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring.”
“I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.”
“I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.”
“I was taught never to make a threat unless you are prepared to carry it out, and I am not a fan of carrying anything. Even watching other people carrying things makes me uncomfortable. Mainly because of the possibility they may ask me to help.”
Source: I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs. The Unpublished Emails.: The Unpublished Emails
“I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'”
“I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.”
“I was taught silence in all the wrong places.”
Source: Daughterbody II: a self-reclamation through poetry
“I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .”
“I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.”
“I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.”
“I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?”
Source: The Cloister Walk
“I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.”
“I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself a silence.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American. I think that's what makes this country. To me, justice means the innocent should be found innocent. It means that those who do wrong should get their due punishment. Ultimately, it means fair treatment. So a call for justice shouldn't offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn't warrant an apology.”
“I was taught that keeping quiet kept the peace until I realized who’s peace was it keeping? The offender is at peace. The people who don’t want to deal with it are at peace & I in this little body am holding all of the war. So I don’t want to hold it anymore.”
“I was taught that pain is bad.”
“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.”
“I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.”
Source: Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?
“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.”
“I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's.”