I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.”
“I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.”
“I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.”
Source: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
“I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.”
“I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.”
“I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.”
“I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.”
“I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.”
“I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.”
“I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.”
“I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.”
“I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.”
“I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.”
“I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here I was on Jonny Quest,working with all these great people from back in the golden age of Hollywood, who came up doing radio. These were journeymen, working actors. It made me proud, and gave me some insight into what acting was really about if you weren't a star.”
“I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.”
Source: The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day
“I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.”
“I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.”
“I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.”
“I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.”
“I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.”
“I wasn`t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.”
“I wasnt a good rule-breaker when I was younger.”
“I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.”
“I wasnt a Star Trek fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.”
“I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.”
“I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.”
“I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.”
“I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.”
“I wasnt kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasnt sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that i would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone---truly gone beneath the waves---I hated myself as i never have before.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.”
“I wasnt political in order to be political”
“I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.”
“I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.”
“I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.”
“I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)”
“I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She‘s on the floor, you‘re towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I‘ll kill him.”
“I wasn’t a fabulous cook. I didn’t have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn’t a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.”
Source: High Five
“I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.”
“I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’”
“I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”
“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”
“I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." I’m already asleep. You’re the one gabbing.”
“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I wasn’t invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn’t want any women on staff at the time.”
“I wasn’t like 'Oh, I'm going to marry 50 Cent...' I mean, seriously. But I did like him. He's very sweet and antithetical to what you'd think of him.”
“I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like they’re at the World Cup, like they won it… It’s sick that we turned it into a sporting event.”
“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet