I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If my mouth wasn't so small, I could fit all of the food in.”
“If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!”
“If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.”
“If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.”
“If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.”
“If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.”
“If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.”
“If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!”
“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.”
Source: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
“If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.”
Source: Collected Works
“If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.”
“If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.”
“If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“If my opinion runs more than twenty pages,” she said, “I am disturbed that I couldn’t do it shorter.” The mantra in her chambers is “Get it right and keep it tight.” She disdains legal Latin, and demands extra clarity in an opinion’s opening lines, which she hopes the public will understand. “If you can say it in plain English, you should,” RBG says. Going through “innumerable drafts,” the goal is to write an opinion where no sentence should need to be read twice. “I think that law should be a literary profession,” RBG says, “and the best legal practitioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.”
Source: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.”
Source: A Star Danced
“If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.”
“If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.”
“If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.”
“If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.”
“If my parents' relationship was a representation of love, then I wanted no part of it.”
Source: Binding 13
“If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".”
“If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.”
“If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.”
“If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.”
Source: Domestic Violets
“If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.”
“If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.”
Source: Francis Bacon: portraits and heads
“If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.”
“If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.”
Source: You Can't Be Too Careful
“If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness and disconnection, I think that they're really about trying to make a connection and almost the impossibility of doing so.”
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
Source: Wilderness
“If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.”
“If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.”
“If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.”
“If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.”
Source: Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play
“If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper
“If my results are not good I will lose my job.”
“If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”
“If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.”
Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life
“If my salary is taken without my agreement, it is a violation of my rights.”
“If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.”
“If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.”
“If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.”
“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.”
“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.”
“If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.”
“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?”
Source: Life Together
“If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.”
Source: Something Real
“If my so-called father would have least bothered about his penis yesterday, he might not have worried too much about my penis today”
“If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.”