I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.”
“I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.”
“I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”
“I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.”
“I'd rather hire someone who is extremely disciplined and process-oriented, than someone with all of the experience in the world.”
“I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.”
“I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.”
“I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.”
“I'd rather just help people with my creative energy. I want to remind them that they're cosmic light inside physical forms and they're an incredibly special part of god's wild mind of love, but I'd love to do that in the form of playing at venues or showing a film at festivals.”
“I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.”
“I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.”
“I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.”
“I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.”
“I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.”
“I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.”
Source: Twilight: Twilight
“I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.”
“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”
“I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?”
“I'd rather let the music speak for itself.”
“I'd rather let the world down than to allow the world to let me down.”
“I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.”
“I'd rather lie down than jump up.”
“I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”
Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series
“I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea.”
“I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.”
“I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.”
“I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.”
“I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.”
Source: In Bohemia
“I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.”
“I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.”
“I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.”
“I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.”
“I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.”
Source: Acquired tastes
“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”
Source: Soul Of The Fire
“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.”
“I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.”
“I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat”
“I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.”
“I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie”
“I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.”
“I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.”
“I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.”
“I'd rather make 50 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing.”
“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
“I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.”
“I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.”
“I'd rather make music than tour.”
“I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.”