I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.”
“I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.”
“I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry
There's so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why
You're the only one who really knew me at all
So take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face
Take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face”
“I wish I could just project everything on the paper.”
Source: Just Kids
“I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.”
“I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.”
“I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.”
“I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.”
“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.”
“I wish I could line up naked the men I've slept with and just gloat for a hot minute. Beautiful creatures.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“I wish I could live here in this meadow. It's gorgeous."
"Yeah, it is," Hercules agreed. "That's Persephone's handiwork," he explained. "She's the god of vegetation."
"Demeter's daughter, right?" Meg said. "I heard Demeter talking when I was on Olympus. Something about not knowing where the girl had run off to."
Hercules nodded. "Yeah, Demeter keeps appealing to my father to find her. No one has seen her in months, and harvest will be coming before long." He touched one of the hyacinths with his finger. "Every flower has its season.”
Source: Go the Distance
“I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.”
“I wish I could live without being perceived.”
Source: Moon Soul
“I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do; but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
“I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.”
“I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.”
“I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!”
Source: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
“I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.”
“I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.”
“I wish I could paint my pen and my words with the colour of truth.”
“I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.”
“I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.”
“I wish I could pause life just the way I pause movies.”
“I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.”
“I wish I could play like Roger Federer.”
“I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.”
“I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.”
“I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.”
“I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.”
“I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams.”
“I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.”
“I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.”
“I wish I could punch him in his smug face and show him how undeterred I am by his exile.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!”
“I wish I could put it back together again. Not as it was before- that is of course impossible. But enough to see it, truly see it, as it once was.”
Source: A Million Worlds with You
“I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.”
Source: Warm Bodies
“I wish i could really believe that---really believe that. I'm glad the two of you met as well.”
Source: Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again
“I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.”
“I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to.”
“I wish I could remember the first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season it might be;
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
So, unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was i to see and to forsee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.”
Source: Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti
“I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.”
“I wish I could reverse time. If I could, I’d go back and change a lot of things. For one, I’d be a better friend to Dodds.” I rock back on my heels and stare down at the ground. Was I even a friend to him at all? “But, the thing is,” I continue, “we can’t go back.” My voice starts to crack. “That’s life’s greatest punishment. We can’t go back and right the wrongs, fix the mistakes, undo the tragedies, change our minds, make different decisions, unbreak hearts, take back words. All you can do is own your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep on living.”
Source: Stay with Me
“I wish I could run free with the horses and never again be the daughter of dropped miracles.”
“I wish I could run into the world’s arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.”
Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing
“I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.”
“I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.”
“I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.”
Source: The Favourite Game