I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If my son is happy, then I am happy.”
“If my son or your son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, they'd be court marshaled.”
“If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.”
“If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.”
“If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.”
“If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.”
“If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.”
“If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.”
“If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“If my soul tells me something and my heart believes in it, then I am bound to accept it.”
“If my standard for truth is determined by the world around me and not informed by the God within me, the one truth that we can be certain of is its absence.”
“If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy!”
“If my stupidity makes you smile, I rather prefer to act always as stupid.”
“If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.”
“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.”
“If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.”
“If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.”
“If my tears were words
I would have written a thousand books on you”
Source: Never meant to be: Modern day Romeo and Juilet
“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”
“If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.”
“If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?”
“If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.”
“If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."”
“If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.”
“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.”
“If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber”
“If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”
Source: Complete Poems
“If my vision comes to a halt at the surface of a thing, I have missed the whole of the thing.”
“If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.”
“If my voice can resonate that way with kids, maybe it will resonate through 'Planes' as well, and they'll hear that little something that I'm giving to them, a performance that says to them, "I want to try." It's all interconnected. I don't think it's thinking too deeply about it.”
“If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.”
“If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.”
“If my wife finds comfort in trite Gispy homilies, I have no objection to your offering them. However, if you ever kiss her again, no matter how platonic the fashion, I'll make a eunuch of you.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program.”
“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”
“If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.”
“If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music
Would you hold it near as it were your own?”
Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs
“If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.”
Source: Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
“If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.”
“If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.”
“If my work has taught me anything, it is this: While a great many curiosities can be explained using thorough scientific research and sound logic, there are a handful of them that resist such easy hypothesis. These mysteries tend to be the most human. The most important.
Chief among them is love.”
Source: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
“If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.”
“If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.”
“If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.”
“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
“If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.”
“If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.”
“If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood”
Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926