I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.”
“If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.”
“If I had been president, I would have come out and declared: "Nothing there, ever! This place stays as it is. We make a big place there where people can pray about the errors we have made that those two towers had to fall."”
“If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.”
Source: The Beauty of Darkness
“If I had been shown how far electromagnetic fields extend out of electrical and electronic products, I probably would never have worked as an electrical and electronics engineer.”
“If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and understand what she meant by it all.”
Source: Our Kind of Cruelty
“If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.”
“If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."”
“If I had been told prior to my CT X-Ray radiation brain scan that it was going to cure my headaches, I would not have believed it.”
“If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.”
“If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.”
“If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.”
“If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!”
“If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.”
“If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.”
“If I had butterscotch pants and a cheetah sweater... I'd be just fine.”
“If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi.”
“If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“If I had cast someone else who didn't have that kind of timing, it would have been leaden and one note. But Ann [Morgan Guilbert] made her really human and really funny without being caricatured or over the top. She feels like a real person.”
“If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.”
“If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.”
“If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.”
“If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.”
“If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.”
“If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
“If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.”
“If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.”
“If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”
“If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone.
{Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe}”
“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”
Source: In a Strange Room
“If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.”
“If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.”
“If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.”
“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.”
“If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.”
“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
Source: Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle
“If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.”
Source: The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (even If You're Afraid You Don't Have what it Takes)
“If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.”
“If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.”
“If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.”
“If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.”
“If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”
“If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.”
“If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”
“If I had followed every urge I ever had, I would have had much more sex and killed a lot more people”
Source: Just Went Out for Milk
“If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.”
Source: Llana of Gathol
“If I had followed my own rules - if I had eaten my own dog food - I would have created a digital book that is searchable and linkable, that can be corrected and updated and discussed and passed around. But I took my publisher's advance money. Hey, dog's gotta eat. The book publishing industry still works - for now - because it adds value with editing, promotion, sales, and cash.”