I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.”
“I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.”
“I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.”
“I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.”
“I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.”
“I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.”
“I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.”
“I won`t cry for you, my mascara`s too expensive”
“I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.”
“I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I wonder about all the so-called great experiences I'm going to miss; I wonder about the relativity of greatness”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.”
“I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.”
“I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children-- none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.”
“I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.”
“I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?”
Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember”
Source: Letters to Katharine Tynan
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.”
Source: The Letters of W.B. Yeats
“I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.”
“I wonder at the idleness of tears.”
Source: Lizette Woodworth Reese ...
“I wonder at the starry pattern in the sky
Are they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?”
“I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.”
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?”
“I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?”
“I wonder can I carry on with the speed
of the world without you in it.”
“I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.”
Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
“I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit.”
“I wonder, for instance, if our laws reflect some deep aversion amongst medical professionals here towards the idea of relinquishing control of the dying process into the hands of the patient. I wonder if this aversion might stem from a more general belief in the medical profession that death represents a form of failure.”
Source: Dying: A Memoir
“I wonder, for instance, if our laws reflect some deep aversion amongst medical professionals here towards the idea of relinquishing control of the dying process into the hands of the patient. I wonder if this aversion might stem from a more general belief in the medical profession that death represents a form of failure. And I wonder if this belief hasn’t seeped out into the wider world in the form of an aversion to the subject of death per se, as if the stark facts of mortality can be banished from our consciousness altogether.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music”
“I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night, will come into the minds of the people throughout the world to express the German heart. I belive it is the expression of the heart of many Germans...[and]of most people throughout the world. That is the appalling tragedy of all that we witness today" Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in his diary during WWII during German occupation of the Netherlands.”
“I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?”
Source: The Dovekeepers
“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”
Source: Ever
“I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.”
“I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.”
Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity
“I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone.”
“I wonder how could I care so much for someone who never cared for me.”
“I wonder how deeply our world would be soothed if, after sharing Communion each week, Christians still pooled their resources to ensure that no one in the community lacked food, shelter, or education; that visitors moving into town were welcomed and provided for-even if it meant we made room in our own houses or sold property to make it so. If, instead of fearing the habits, beliefs, and diseases of our neighbors, our active, agapë love left no oxygen for fear. If we cared about the literal meaning of verses like these.”
Source: Fearing Bravely: Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies
“I wonder how different life would be if the only thing we demanded of it was the opportunity to give back to it.”
“I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.”
“I wonder how I can crowd all my joy into one short life.”
Source: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
“I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.”
“I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read in folk tales.”
Source: The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
“I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS