I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.”
“I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.”
“I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.”
“I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.”
“I can talk myself so much into my part.”
“I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.”
“I can talk to him," Rhys offered. "He needs to know you still love him."
"No," Rhi said loudly, her face once more a mask of indifference.
Rhys bowed his head in acceptance. It was the same answer each time he'd asked through the centuries. "As you wish.”
Source: Night's Blaze: Part 1
“I can talk to you all day. I just might not say anything though.”
“I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.”
“I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me.”
Source: The Dragon's Disciples
“I can taste hints of coarse-ground cinnamon, cumin, cardamom and cloves!"
"Not only that, he used apple wood for his smoke chips! Compared to cherry and other fruit trees, apple wood gives off a milder, sweeter smoke."
"Aha! I see! So that's how he was able to smoke the ingredients without overpowering the curry spices!"
"Correct! That was the perfect wood to use to highlight the coarse-ground spices he chose."
"I added the spice mix to my curing compound too. You should be able to taste the curry spices in all of the smoked ingredients."
"The toppings also show an excellent hand! The smoked egg was soft boiled to perfection, its umami flavors delectably concentrated. The yolk is practically jelly!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 7 [Shokugeki no Souma 7]
“I can taste lies, Persephone. Yours are as sweet as your skin”
“I can taste the good-bye on his lips.”
Source: Prodigy
“I can taste the staleness of a lie
As I chew your words and make them mine.”
“I can teach a cat to bark and feed it dog food all of its life, but it will still be a cat. However, what it won’t be is a cat that enjoyed everything that it was to be a cat.”
“I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.”
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.”
“I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.”
“I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.”
“I can teach you how to dance, but I can't teach you how to be sexy. Well, I mean I can, but it'll cost you an additional $19.95.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I can teach you how to think, but I can’t teach you what to think. That is up to you.”
“I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music.”
“I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.”
“I can teach you tricks for titling your Christian book in such a way that it stands out from the competition.”
Source: Book Title Bible: How to Title Your Christian Book with Faith and Inspiration
“I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.”
“I can tell about one who didn't win. And it didn't matter.Because his destiny was battle, Not the victory. He was born to travel, Not to find destination. He lived to live, Not to make a home.”
“I can tell any liberal why he or she thinks what they think. I can predict to them what their reaction to any event or person is going to be, because I know them, because I have taken the time because I'm curious to study it. I know what liberalism is. I know from where it springs and derives, and I know the vast majority of people who are liberals, what they are going to do, say, and think about.”
“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“I can tell by the look on Hagin's face that he had eaten some of my food. It is amazing those boys aren't fat.”
“I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.”
“I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.”
“I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.”
“I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.”
“I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring”
“I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall.”
Source: Writers & Lovers
“I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall. Your words go scattershot off of it.”
Source: Writers & Lovers
“I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.”
“I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.”
“I can tell how lonely I am by how easily I'm fooled by a mannequin in a store.”
“I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.”
“I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.”
“I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.”
“I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.”
“I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.”
“I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.”
“I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.”
“I can tell right away by looking at you what you want to eat," he says. "I can tell how many brothers and sisters you have."
After divining my favorite color (blue) and my astrological sign (Aquarius), Nakamura pulls out an ivory stalk of takenoko, fresh young bamboo ubiquitous in Japan during the spring. "This came in this morning from Kagumi. It's so sweet that you can eat it raw." He peels off the outer layer, cuts a thin slice, and passes it across the counter.
First, he scores an inch-thick bamboo steak with a ferocious santoku blade. Then he sears it in a dry sauté pan until the flesh softens and the natural sugars form a dark crust on the surface. While the bamboo cooks, he places two sacks of shirako, cod milt, under the broiler. ("Milt," by the way, is a euphemism for sperm. Cod sperm is everywhere in Japan in the winter and early spring, and despite the challenges its name might create for some, it's one of the most delicious things you can eat.)
Nakamura brings it all together on a Meiji-era ceramic plate: caramelized bamboo brushed with soy, broiled cod milt topped with miso made from foraged mountain vegetables, and, for good measure, two lightly boiled fava beans. An edible postcard of spring. I take a bite, drop my chopsticks, and look up to find Nakamura staring right at me.
"See, I told you I know what you want to eat."
The rest of the dinner unfolds in a similar fashion: a little counter banter, a little product display, then back to transform my tastes and his ingredients into a cohesive unit. The hits keep coming: a staggering plate of sashimi filled with charbroiled tuna, surgically scored squid, thick circles of scallop, and tiny white shrimp blanketed in sea urchin: a lesson in the power of perfect product. A sparkling crab dashi topped with yuzu flowers: a meditation on the power of restraint. Warm mochi infused with cherry blossoms and topped with a crispy plank of broiled eel: a seasonal invention so delicious it defies explanation.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.”
Source: Det fine som flyter forbi