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 knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"
From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
Source: Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
“I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.”
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
Source: Brokeback Mountain
“I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.”
“I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.”
“I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.”
“I wish I knew what I know now before.”
“I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.”
“I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“I wish I knew where they came from. The ideas. They are always so random. A marriage of one thing meeting another, creating some weird looking baby that needs to grow into a better self.”
“I wish I knew where this journey will take us, but I don't. All I know is that this is bigger than me, my self-doubt, or any crisis of conscience. I now truly realize how profoundly insignificant I am compared to all this. Why does that make me feel so much better?”
Source: Sleeping Giants
“I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.”
“I wish I knew who I am," I whispered to the stars in Baya's eyes.
Slowly, Baya shook his head. "Oh, Dust Girl, that's the hardest wish of all. Not even Baya can give you that one. That one you earn.”
Source: Dust Girl
“I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."”
“I wish I knew why I am so anguished.”
“I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, that I was too sheltered or too innocent or something. If she had told me why she cut herself all the time, or that it was the pills that made her act so spaced out, or that she was even on pills, or even saw doctors, or any of it, I would have done my best to help her. I'm not saying I'm a superhero. I'm not saying I would have just swooped down and saved her. I'm just saying the only reason everything was a waste was that she made it a waste. That whole time, back when I was just a normal kid in high school, living out my normal life, I really thought everything mattered.”
Source: Hold Still
“I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'”
“I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.”
“I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!”
“I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!”
“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
“I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.”
“I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.”
“I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.”
“I wish I sang better.”
“I wish I studied more religions, I wish I read the Bible, the Quran. I think as I get older, I will start to really dive into religions, just because I feel like there's truths in all of those books. Clearly. I'm saying there's truths in all of them.”
“I wish I understood the beauty
in leaves falling. To whom
are we beautiful
as we go?”
Source: Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994
“I wish I understood why you buy all this stuff."
"For the same reason I married you," she murmured. "To help pass the time.”
Source: Gaza Blues: Different Stories
“I wish I wanted you, Rehv.
He laughed dryly. Funny. I know just what you mean.”
“I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.”
“I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.”
“I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.”
“I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.”
“I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.”
Source: That Was Then, This Is Now
“I wish I was a little bit taller.”
“I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing”
“I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.”
“I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."”
“I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.”
Source: The New H. N. I. C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
“I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.”
“I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.”
“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
“I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”
“I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me”
“I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.”
“I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.”
“I wish I was as true an artist as you so that I could find a way to tell you what you’ve become to me. America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion.
You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.
You said that to get things right one of us would have to take a leap of faith. I think I've discovered the canyon that must be leaped, and I hope to find you waiting for me on the other side.”
Source: The One
“I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!”
Source: The Hobbit
“I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.”