I Quotes
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“I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.”
“I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.”
“I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics.”
“I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.”
“I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.”
“I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.”
“I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’t
trying to be deceitful.”
Source: Prince of Wolves
“I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.”
“I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.”
“I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.”
“I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.”
Source: South of Broad
“I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.”
“I was trying to work out who I was.”
Source: Remember Remember
“I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.”
“I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.”
“I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.”
“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what is the word that I'm looking for? - metaphorical language in painting, and to create something that was more indexical. And what I mean by that is that when you go to the library there's an index card that refers to a book that's actual and real in the world. So that index relates to something real.”
“I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.”
“I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.”
“I was turning into a zombie as I was aging.”
“I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.”
“I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine”
Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
“I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.”
Source: The Falconer
“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
Source: The Rachel Incident
“I was twenty one years old and I thought, "here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.”
“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.”
“I was twenty years old, a military spouse, and now a caregiver.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the love, the joy of knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way. A crisis came, I called upon Him, and suddenly He was there, alive! In fact, two thousand years had not aged Him a bit! I found He still had the same power to transform men's lives and hold their loyalty that He had manifested in the Gospels two millenniums before.”
“I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.”
“I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.”
“I was two votes away from class clown in high school.”
“I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.”
“I was two years old when I told my mom I was going to be in a band when I grew up, and I was four years old when I started my first band with my neighbors. Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.”
“I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!”
“I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.”
“I was unable to resist my stare at her, I never felt like this before, I knew it's not that old feeling for a friend. What is it? Is it love?”
Source: In search of a Soulmate
“I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.”
“I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.”
“I was unaware of myself,
In ignorance & arrogance, I destroyed myself,
Once I was aware of myself,
In kindness & compassion, I rose myself!”
“I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.”
“I was unaware that Adam had been trying to stand between me and Sabrina since ever, and the expos gave him room and time to mingle with her, and talk about me, just before I met Martina. Adam and I knew that we would most likely get the place we wanted, and only we knew that we were going to make it happen - I was going to make it happen - we both knew.
I was unaware whether Adam had been manipulating Sabrina throughout the last weeks and months of our so-called “relationship” until I acted out of character one night and broke a security door with my shoulder the following morning, when her behaviour was becoming too much for me to endure. I didn't think that she had any potential relation to business or criminal activity on Adam's part against my own life. I was wondering if Adam didn't want me to reconnect with Sabrina because he had other plans with her. If we reconnected with my little sweetheart of a crazy ex-girlfriend, then Adam's manipulation of both of us wouldn't work. Adam had been manipulating both me and Sabrina for a long time, I just didn't realize it since we had split up and she moved out. Adam couldn't really manipulate Sabrina before because she hated them.
But Adam had an easy job manipulating / corrupting / influencing / instructing / transforming / changing / destroying Martina apparently and I didn't understand why.
Was it because of Ruan? Did Adam promise jobs for Ruan, Agustina in London, Amsterdam, and Paris? That sounds like manipulation. Of children.
“Manipulation.” – Mani = hands
“Mani” – hands / money
“Manipulation” – Money – pull – ation
Pulling the hands. The lines. The cash. The strings. The puppets.
I told her I wanted her to move back home for her safety. We had been living there for over half a year, and Adam, Sabrina, and the others didn't know where we lived.
Was it only an illusion and only for me personally, to think that they did not know our address? If they didn't know where we had moved, why had we moved to Mount Juic, the Jew Mountain?
By chance?
If they knew our address from Martina, then what was the point, or what were they waiting for?
For the construction to be completed.
Why would they want me to think that they did not know our address?
To let my guards down.”
Source: BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA
“I was unbelievably lucky.”
“I was unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I always played frigid doctors or the plain sisters who got the guy at the end. What did I know from ladies in caves who ate only meat? And when the outfit came in, I never thought of myself that way. I mean, I always thought of myself as having my father's chest. I was very self-conscious.”
“I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.”