I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I cannot wait to tell young girls stories. Stories about why, how and where their alone time matters.”
Source: From Catwalk To Freedom
“I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.”
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
Source: Labyrinths
“I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.”
Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
“I cannot, will not, tell the full story of my next few hours. I'll only say that I found what I knew I must: the sun-bleached bones of everyone I'd once loved. Even knowing what I would find, I was unprepared for the knife of pain that cut through me. I half fell, half dismounted, from my pony. Kneeling on the ground, I gave in to the grief I'd held at bay for so long. I howled like an animal. I beat my fists against my chest. I wept. I don't know how long it went on. Time disappears, I suppose, when you need it to.”
Source: The Only
“I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.”
Source: The Blood of Others
“I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.”
Source: Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key
“I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.”
“I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.”
Source: Searching for Heaven on Earth: How to Find What Really Matters in Life
“I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.”
“I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.”
“I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.”
“I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.”
Source: Collected Stories
“I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.”
“I cannot write before I have read more and learnt more from what I read.”
“I cannot write from within the pathetic boundaries of any one culture or any one language, for it'd be like asking the wind to blow in just one country.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I cannot write in the stillness of life.
My ink must be drawn from chaos
And utter difficulty.
The page must tremble in unsteady hands,
While the lips quiver words of unrest —
Truth lies in uneven lines.”
“I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.”
“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”
Source: The decline and fall of science
“I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.”
“I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.”
“I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.”
“I cannot yet see why it was considered necessary or in any way desirable to introduce another member into our household; particularly a loathsome, evil-minded, treacherous, and altogether useless and selfish Cat. We were, to my way of thinking, quite a complete and satisfactory family group as it was. There were Master and Mistress, without whom, of course, no household could be. There was Baby to provide occupation and a necessary object of worship. There was Nurse to look after Baby; there was Cook to feed us all; and there was myself, the Dog, to look after the rest of them and to make the many comforts of the establishment more completely worth while. It was, I think you will agree with me, a well-balanced organization. The addition of the Gray Devil was, to say the least of it superfluous.”
Source: Many Dogs There Be
“I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.”
“I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.”
Source: The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston
“I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.”
Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.”
“I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.”
Source: My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
“I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.”
“I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.”
Source: Read for Your Life #21
“I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.”
“I cant begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.”
“I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.”
“I cant believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.”
“I cant control everything, and I dont need to”
“I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect”
“I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.”
“I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.”
“I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.”
“I cant lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. Im so grateful to all my fans. I couldnt do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then its part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.”
“I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.”
“I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.”
“I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)
“I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.”
“I cant pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.”