I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I carefully put myself back together,
With a million shreds of paper so thin.
I get lost in the shadows of yesterday.
Again.”
Source: Strings of Fate
“I carefully split one of the eggs and put the white into one bowl, the yolk into another. The bright orange yolk would become mayonnaise, and the white would make meringues that we'd top with whipped cream, raspberries, and roasted rhubarb.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.”
“I carried a torch for Catarine Hayes Alexander and would never stop.”
Source: Lies We Exposed: A Novel
“I carried around five tons of pain where she used to be.”
Source: Marriage Games
“I carried grief, too heavy to speak, and God made it a candle in the night.”
“I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.”
“I carried my legs all the way to the end of the planet where everything falls except the memory of you.”
Source: La película que nunca vimos
“I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.”
“I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection. We even shared a common reading of the history of art. It would never have crossed Yves's mind to say to me, "Ah, I saw a Pablo Picasso . . ." He knew perfectly well what was interesting with Picasso, as did I.”
“I carried recipes in my head like maps.”
Source: Chocolat
“I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
“I carried secrets for decades. Now, I carry my voice.”
“I carried that guilt with me for a long time. I choked it down with more than drink too. Anything to spare me from that pain. Spare me from the memories. The decisions I made. And the ones I could not take back.”
Source: A Broken Blade
“I carried the burdens of so many, yet they could never carry mine.”
“I carried the image of 'The Scapegoat' with me and that ethereal moment when it seemed as if I had entered the bleak scenery stayed etched in the back of my mind for reasons I could not yet comprehend.”
Source: Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Collected Essays
“I carried the tree into the front room where cloves had punctured the skin of oranges and I could see where you had been only minutes before. Your indent was still warm on the sofa with a book open to its side, a table with an empty plate, a cardigan, and the slow fade of a fire.”
Source: Tin Man
“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.
(Recalling the degree of focus and determination that eventually yielded the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.)”
“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.”
“I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.”
“I carried you a long way
into my mirror, believing you would carry me
back out.”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.”
“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”
“I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.”
“I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.”
“I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.”
“I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.”
“I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.”
“I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.”
“i carry a message
that i can not read.
the words may be haunting ,
or tender or sweet.
though what it says,
i don not know.
i still carry it with me ,
where ever i go.”
“I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.”
“I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.”
“I carry a persistent fear that my thoughts are incorrect, or silly, or so obvious they aren’t worth saying. Suddenly I’m a little boy, sitting in class like a solemn ghost. Mrs. Larson asks me a question, all the seven-year-old eyes in the room turn to me with expectation, and I’m frozen in place, terrified by the sudden realization that I’m expected to contribute. My cheeks flush and I want to go away to someplace safe—someplace like the woods or the eternal fields of green Illinois corn where I can watch and experience and listen without any demand to justify my existence. I’ve always been happy to be alone. God, however, never takes his eyes off me, and on my good days I believe that he is smiling, never demanding an answer other than the fact of myself. I exist as his redeemed creation, and that is, pleasantly, enough for him.”
Source: Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
“I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead
“I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."”
“I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.”
“I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.”
“I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!”
“I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.”
“I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.”
“I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda for the day is, and if there isn't a plan, I make one. I strive to fill the rest of the page with miscellaneous thoughts and ideas and go back through and fill sparse pages as well. If I start skipping days, I know I'm off course and need to take a step back and ground my life.”
“I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.”
“I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.”
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
“I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.”
“I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.”
“I carry her in pockets now
a photo folded too many times
the last text asking if I’m okay
her favourite lipstick shade still uncapped
and every song that dares to say her name in tune.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.”
“I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.”
Source: Memories Look at Me