I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.”
“I can spend your money better than you can.”
“I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.”
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”
“I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.”
“I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.”
“I can stand behind the truth, but I will not stand in front of a pack of lies.”
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“I can stand by a tweet. But Comedy Central said they couldn't publicly support me, unless I deleted it. I wasn't about to tell the people who work for me that they didn't have jobs anymore because I wasn't going to delete a stupid tweet.”
“I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.”
“I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it....The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head. I’m just standing....You are all trying to compensate, to get your bodies lower because the height scares you. But the crouching and the sidestepping are not natural. You’ve made yourselves vulnerable. If you could just control your panic, this wind would be nothing.”
Source: Educated
“I can stand out the war with any man.”
Source: Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“I can stand up for myself against idiots, just fine." She brings the sharp tip to my tattoo and scratches every single letter inked on my skin.”
Source: Bewitched
“I can stand up like this, with P2’s gun pointed at my back knowing it will go off at the touch of a finger if he decides I’ve said too much, and you know what? I’m not in the least worried about it. If I die, I go into that vision of heaven. I go to meet my Savior who has met my needs and loves me more than His own life.”
Source: The Parabaloni
“I can start by telling you you’re stubborn and impulsive and prideful. And generous and protective and passionate. In public, you ride like the devil and fill out a pair of buckskin breeches like pure liquid sin, but in private, you behave as though you’ve joined a monastic order. You’re kind to ugly dogs, and you’re patient with awkward sisters. Your kisses are sweet. And your life is worth something.” She fought back the emotion rising in her throat. “I’ll tell you who you are, Rafe. Anytime you find yourself in doubt. And I won’t even leave you bleeding.”
Source: Say Yes to the Marquess
“I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That excites me. That's why I had the ukulele around in the first place, years ago. It was to just break out of habits.”
“I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?”
“I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.”
“I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.”
“I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.”
“I can staunchly reject the notion that I was created to live in relationship with God. But should I do that, I will be unable to reject all of the consequences for which I was not created.”
“I can stay on my boat for a few weeks if I have a guitar and a girl and a Bob Marley CD. After that, I've got to move around.”
“I can stay still. I can observe. I can wait.”
Source: Anant
“I can stick uphill ice, on my saucer”
“I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.”
“I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.””
“I can still chase women, only downhill”
“I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with.”
“I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.”
“I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them.”
“I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.”
“I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance.”
“I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.”
“I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together.”
Source: Demon Copperhead
“I can still feel it—the present-tense emptiness every time my call was dropped by an overloaded cell network, and the gradual realization that, cut off from the world and stalled bumper to bumper, even though I was in the driver’s seat, I was just a passenger.”
Source: Permanent Record
“I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I’ve been hard since you left, through two meetings and one teleconference. You’ve got the advantage, state your demands.”
Source: Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel
“I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!”
“I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave.”
“I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly aligned for me to do a good job.”
“I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.”
“I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?”
Source: Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel
“I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come from the deepest and darkest recesses of the mind. These were not screams of pain. These were screams of years of sorrow and despair. These were screams that made your skin crawl. These were the worst screams I have ever heard. I cannot get them out of my head. Perhaps, they will be with me forever. I shouldn't be so lucky.”
Source: Not All Out of Love
“I can still hear the undemanding calmness of the Mediterranean Sea as the waves brushed up against the dimly lit sand, greeting the shoreline like an old friend. The sea and the sun seemed so sure of themselves, and I loved that thought.”
Source: The Art of Unbecoming: An Unexpected Journey from Brokenness to Healing
“I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always”
“I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.”
“I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.”
“I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.”
“I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain."
Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.”