I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish my car's radio volume dial also operated my air conditioner, so the louder I crank up a hot song, the cooler it would be. Oh, and more music needs to be made about ducks, because that would be even cooler.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“I wish my cheating ex well and I am glad she is out of my life!”
“I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my credit. Honestly, my attention generally diverts elsewhere. I own a few books, but have more than I'll personally ever read."
"Is that not a sign of a good library?" Miss Elizabeth replied. "To run out of something new to read would be far more unfortunate than having too many unread books.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice in Space
“I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.”
“I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.”
“I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.”
“I wish my fans will always be nice to one another. Don't waste time & enjoy life”
“I wish my father could be around.”
“I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.”
“I wish my friends would be a tad more selective before they jump in with both feet. Almost instantly… “they’re my world!!” Ummm, this is like your 8th world… You making a solar system?”
“I wish my Google was faster.”
“I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.”
“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.”
“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.”
“I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
“I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.”
Source: Take Me There
“I wish my mind had a save button.”
“I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.”
Source: Bluebird Canyon
“I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.”
“I Wish My Mother Was Here
A special wish for Mother’s Day
I wish my Mother was here
So I could tell her
What it means to me
That she saved my life
I wish my Mother was here
So I could pat her on the shoulder
To appreciate her kindness
And all the love she has shown me
I wish my Mother was here
So, I would let her realize
That I am grateful
To be born of a powerful woman like her
I wish my Mother was here
So, I could make her aware
Of the exceptional job she has done
By raising me up
I wish my Mother was here
So, I could thank her
For all the sacrifices she made
Because she has been nothing but the best
I wish my Mother was here!”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.”
“I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.”
“I wish my name was Tom Kite.”
“I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.”
“I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.”
“I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.”
“I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.”
“I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.”
“I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.”
“I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.”
“I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.”
“I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.”
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
“I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.”
“I wish my wish would not be granted!”
Source: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.”
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.”
“I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.”
“I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks of the haste, and still stronger marks of the inexperience, under which they were framed.”
Source: The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788
“I wish not to tell you how I feel
I choose silence so that you leave
Kiss me goodbye and set me free”
“I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.”
“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”
Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.”
“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.”
“I wish our love was right now.”
Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths