I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!”
“If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.”
“If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.”
“If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.”
“If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.”
Source: On Nietzsche
“If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.”
“If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.”
“If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don't, then I don't. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I'll pretty much say to a guy, 'I like you - let's go hang out.' But my friends are like, 'You can't do that! You have to string this guy along.' And I'm just like, 'No! I won't! I just want to go on the date!' It's a nightmare - I definitely haven't figured it out yet.”
“If I want to spend my life unpacking my life, why am I always collecting boxes?”
“If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.”
“If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.”
“If I want to thank you countless times, it means that I do not see any difference between God and you.
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“If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.”
“If I want to travel with my family I have to purchase 7 airline tickets.”
“If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.”
Source: Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self
“If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.”
“If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies like Gattaca or whatever, the space age stuff is always all there is. But in the world there is never just one way of living. It's more like a big junkyard. Put it this way: I'm not afraid I'm going to end up on a space station in aluminium-foil underwear.”
“If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.”
“If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.”
“If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.”
“If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.”
“If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.”
“If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.”
“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“If I wanted, I could come up with reasons to be angry with everyone I know; there are sins of commission or omission I could hang on every last person in my life… The truth is, I will never run out of people to indict. We are all guilty of so many failures to love well that if I wanted--and sometimes I do want--I could find some fault or transgression in everyone I know that I could then use to justify writing them off. I could blaze that trail to hell if I wanted to, and just the thought of it scares me off”
Source: Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
“If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.”
“If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.”
“If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.”
“If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.”
“If I wanted to be able to pick up a new dance and master it quickly, I needed to train my body so it could step up.”
“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”
“If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.”
“If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.”
“If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?”
Source: Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
“If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the few that were meant for me. Not any destination picked at random; I had to head for those that summoned me with a passion, for they were the ones that gave meaning to my life. I had to ignore the warnings of those who would tell me why I couldn't do what I wanted to do.”
“If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!”
“If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.”
“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.”
“If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.”
“If I wanted to consume something that looks and tastes like dirt, I’d eat dirt,” I said, “at least dirt isn’t overpriced."
~Beans~”
“If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?”
“If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.”
“If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.”
“If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.”
“If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.”
“If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.”
“If I wanted to get my arms as big as I could possibly get them, I would probably do around 20 sets of 4 exercises and 5 sets each for the triceps and 20 sets for the biceps per workout 3 times a week. That would be around 60 sets of triceps and 60 sets of biceps work per week. I would keep the reps between 6 and 8 and I would do all basic movements where I'd handle as heavy a weight as possible. I'd consume nutritious food that had calories in and just flat out eat!”
“If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.”