I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.”
“If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“If I were to try to be perfect before humans,
I would probably fall out of the grace of God.
-MillYentei”
“If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.”
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”
Source: Killosophy
“If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.”
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
Source: Either/ Or
“If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.”
“If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.”
“If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.”
“If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'”
Source: Something Like An Autobiography
“If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.”
“If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.”
“If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.”
“If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.”
“If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.”
“If I were trying to sweep you off your feet, you'd be swept. Period. - Adam from Moonlight”
Source: Moonlight
“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.”
Source: First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet
“If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.”
“If I were white I could capture the world.”
“If I were white, I'd get less criticism.”
“If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups”
“If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.”
“If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?”
“If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.”
“If I were you, I'd go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!”
“If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.”
“If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.”
“If I were younger, I'd know more.”
“If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.”
“If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.”
“If I weren’t a gentleman, I would pound you into the ground right now.” He unfisted his hands in order to dismiss the temptation.”
Source: The Duchess' Ring
“If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn’t, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost.If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn't, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost. Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me? Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me?”
Source: A Good Excuse to Be Bad
“If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself."
She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine!" he says.
"Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives.”
Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door
“If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.”
Source: Conversations with Joan Crawford
“If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.”
“If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.”
“If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.”
“If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.”
“If I weren't acting I'd be a very unhappy, unfulfilled woman.”
“If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.”
“If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.”
“If I weren't already dead, I'd be alive with joy.”
“If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.”