I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.”
“I can remember walking on the moon.”
“I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house.
‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’
Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, I say, but it doesn’t mean it actually happened that way.
I wait for him to make eye contact, which he does.
‘You have a point, Junior,’ he says.’ You’re right.”
Source: Foe
“I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a 70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.”
“I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer—
now it seems that it’s
to want to earn a
decent living”
Source: White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
“I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.”
“I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.”
“I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.”
“I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral was a stone-faced secret police chief, personally groomed to be the successor to the decrepit Francisco Franco. His car blew up, killing only him and his chauffeur with a carefully planted charge, and not only was the world well rid of another fascist, but, more important, the whole scheme of extending Franco's rule was vaporized in the same instant. The dictator had to turn instead to Crown Prince Juan Carlos, who turned out to be the best Bourbon in history and who swiftly dismantled Franco's entire system. If this action was 'terrorism,' it had something to be said for it. Everyone I knew in Spain made a little holiday in their hearts when the gruesome admiral went sky-high.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.”
“I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.”
“I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.”
“I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.”
“I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.”
“I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."”
“I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.”
“I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.”
“I can remember, with unsteady feet,
Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure
In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long
Have lost their power to please; which when I see them,
Raise only now a melancholy wish
I were the little trifler once again,
Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)
“I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.”
“I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.”
“I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352”
“I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance is the same if you are running a foot race in the city park or front pointing up the second ice field on the north face of the Eiger.”
“I can rest when I die,” Hart said. “What I need is to know you’re okay.”
Source: Like a House on Fire
“I can rest when I'm dead.”
“I can rid myself of ‘all of the death’ that is all around me by getting out of the way of all of the things that ‘all of that death’ was attempting to birth within me.”
“I can rid you of it, you know,' said Ennerast, leaning forward over the blade, pressing her face close to Kissen's. 'This promise, the scars, the memory.' She brushed Kissen's cheek.
'More powerful gods than you have made me offers, Ennerast,' said Kissen, 'and I killed them just the same.”
Source: Godkiller
“I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.”
“I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.”
“I can run a thousand miles and wait a million years for you if you love me.”
“I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.”
“I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.”
“I can rush off a cliff or I can build a bridge across it. And if you look around, we seem to be awfully light on bridges these days because we’re incredibly limited on patience.”
“I can sacrifice everything for my dreams and goals encourage me or simply leave me.”
“I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.”
“I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.”
“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”
“I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.”
“I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.”
“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
“I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“I can save the universe from vengeance, but who will save me from myself?”
“I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.”
“I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.”
“I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.”
“I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.”