I Quotes
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“If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?”
“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”
“If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.”
“if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used”
“If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.”
“If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.”
“If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.”
“If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.”
“If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.”
“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
“If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.”
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.”
“If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.”
“If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.”
“If I wake up in the morning and see a bedroom ceiling, I say: "Another day? Let's go!" If I woke up and saw a wooden coffin or urn lid, I'd probably say: "Oh...back to bed.”
“If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.”
“If I walk down the street in jeans and a plain t-shirt, I don't feel like the world sees me as I want to be seen or as what I am.”
“If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them”
“If I walk in the house, and I greet my wife, and I give her a hug, kiss her on the cheek, and I say to her, "Honey, how'd your day go," and I listed to how her day went. If I say, "Is there anything I can do to help you," and she tells me, "Honey, if you could peel the potatoes," or whatever, I have influenced my wife in a very positive way.”
“If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.”
“If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.”
“If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.”
“If I walk into my house and something is askew, I can't do anything until I fix it. It's so burdensome to live that way.”
“If I walk into the room and you see something amazing, trust your eyes.”
Source: Phenomenally Me: My Sweet 2016™
“If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a photo together? Can you give me your autograph?" They would bring their expensive Armani or Prada wallet to sign. Other people who are desperate show me a photo of their dead daughter and ask: Can you support me? I tell them: How can I? Morally, of course, I sympathize with you. But I cannot support you and you cannot support me. This is the condition of this society. We are separated.”
“If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.”
“If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.”
“If I walked away from this clearing, from this family, I could never leave the path I was choosing. I had to be all in, or all out...I wanted to stay, but I wouldn't. I remembered.”
Source: Shielded
“If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.”
Source: Life after baseball
“If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret. But if the light was gone in the Luxembourg I would walk up through the gardens and stop in at the studio apartment where Gertrude Stein lived at 27 rue de Fleurus.”
Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.”
“If I wanna be president, I probably can.”
“If I wanna die I may be awesome that I fear nothing. So I can do anything in this earth. Cause I am about to die. And If I start to do anything in this earth, the worst can be, I will die. This is the way I make impossibles possible.”
“If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.”
“If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.”
Source: Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating
“If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.”
“If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.”
“If I want everyone to follow me, I have to unfollow them first and build my own path. Only unique is being followed.”
“If I want Italian and you want Japanese, why can't you compromise and have Italian?" my husband once said to me, redefining the word "compromise.”
Source: Just the Funny Parts: ... And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys' Club
“If I want low-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate. If I want high-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate again.”
“If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.”
“If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.”
“If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!”
“If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.”
“If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.”
“If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?”
“If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.”
“If I want religion, I know where to look for it - and if for example I don't want it, then why should it be forced on me in media and public spaces?”
Source: Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
“If I want something I do everything to get it.”
“If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.”