I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.”
“I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man”
“I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.”
“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”
Source: Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties
“I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?”
Source: The Onion Girl
“I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.”
Source: Where She Went
“I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.”
Source: The Moth Diaries
“I can’t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.”
“I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.”
“I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.”
“I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.”
Source: Knowing Scripture
“I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.”
Source: The Notebook
“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.”
“I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.”
“I can’t really trip about people not knowing, I guess in due time, all in God speed. But some amazing music I have is from artists that people really don’t know. It’s like, some things are really a gift, and if that’s not meant to be, hey I can live with that.”
“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.”
“I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.”
“I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.”
“I can’t remember who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense.”
“I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.”
“I can’t run around falling in love with fantasies.”
Source: The Eternal Ones
“I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there’s a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them now.”
“I can’t say, "I eat whatever I want when I want," but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.”
“I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.”
“I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t real.” I stopped, horrified. “I mean, I don’t look—It’s hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I don’t try to see anything, because—Oh gosh, this sounds terrible.” He had a funny look on his face, like he wasn’t sure what to think. “Huh. That’s never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.”
“I can’t see, unless the weather changes, the conditions changing dramatically.”
“I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.”
Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel
“I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!”
“I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.”
“I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.”
“I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.”
“I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.”
“I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.”
Source: Wintergirls
“I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.”
“I can’t tell how much of our connection is because of the things we still have in common or the one thing that bonds us for life. But no matter what happens, I know I can totally count on Erin for anything. And she knows I’d do anything for her.”
Source: Something Like Fate
“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!”
“I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girl’s hand in the darkness... All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.”
“I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.”
Source: Forbidden
“I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.”
“I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.”
“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
“I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.”
“I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me”
“I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“I can’t touch him. (Jared) Well, don’t you suck. (Stryker) Oh, believe me, I couldn’t agree more. Just be grateful it’s not contagious. (Jared)”
“I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not like a color?”
“I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)”
Source: The Dark-Hunter Companion