I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I could undo everything," Tony said, "I would never have gone to that party. I was an idiot, Kelly, and it cost me the love of my life.”
Source: Undercover Desire
“If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.”
“If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.”
“If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.”
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.”
“If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.”
“If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.”
“If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.”
“If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother?”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.”
“If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.”
“If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."”
“If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.”
“If I could write anything I wanted to, I'd write about the splendor of butter and sugar hitting your taste buds at the same time, or smooth pasta and sharp Romano, or a fat strawberry dipped in bittersweet chocolate.”
Source: Eating Heaven
“If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'”
“If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.”
“If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
"I love you.”
“If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.”
“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.”
“If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.”
“If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.”
“If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.”
“If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.”
“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”
“If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.”
“If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.”
“If I could, I'd wear my sneakers everywhere, even for dinners or events.”
“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.”
Source: Doubt (movie tie-in edition)
“If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“If I couldn't do that much for my master then what kind of butler would I be, really.”
“If I couldn't escape the guilt, there was nothing left to do but lean into it. And leaning into it is what led me to grabbing the forty dollars my mom leaves out in the front to order food if I ever need it, schlepping miserably down to the bodega, and collecting everything I needed to make Paige's infamous So Sorry Blondies from the summer before she left for college.
I pull them out of the oven now, the smell wafting through the kitchen---the brown sugar and butter and toffee against the richness of the dark chocolate chips and toffee against the pockets of dark chocolate caramel sauce. A little bitter and a little sweet.”
Source: Tweet Cute
“If I couldn't find the trail before dark, I could wake tomorrow disoriented and desperate, without having even made any new miles; my loss of the PCT should have distressed me, but a new instinct led me forward. In this moment of despair I was refusing to stop fighting. I asked the mountains for some guidance, the strength to get myself out of here, and pulled wild power from within myself I'd never known I'd had.
I was no longer following a trail.
I was learning to follow myself.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“If I couldn't have her, did I want anyone else?”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“If I couldn't sleep, I could read.”
Source: Ella Enchanted
“if I couldn’t sleep, then I ought to just close my eyes
and lie still. That at least my body could rest, even if my mind wouldn’t.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks”
“If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.”
“If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.”
“If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.”
“If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.”
“If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.”
“If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.”
“If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.”
“If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.”
“If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play”
“If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian