I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.”
Source: Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories
“I channeled the people's choices with my every move and desire, so everything I did was righteous.”
Source: Her
“I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.”
“I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.”
“I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.”
“I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born”
“I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.”
“I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.”
Source: Shakespeare's Play of a Midsummer Night's Dream
“I charge you; once you have the dream, decide to begin and begin right away. Wait for nobody to blow whistles for you to start.”
Source: Become a Better You
“I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.”
Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
“I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan, that's about it. I think that I've been lucky enough to represent some great companies, and I think maybe that's what it is.”
“I chase after inspiring stories.”
“I chase and suffer solitude so I might finally experience a true friendship.”
“I chase goals, not girls.”
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.”
Source: Chase The Wind: A Book Of Poetry
“I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.”
“I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”
Source: Stolen
“I chased my prey…there was blood oozing out from the pain of the weaker… my incisors tasted the deliciousness of flesh! Lying down under the shade of age-old tree I knew- you are nothing but the contentment of the deliciousness - the very meaning of mortal life!”
Source: The Voyage to Eternity
“I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.”
“I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.”
“I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.”
“I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.”
“I cheat on my wives. I cheat on my taxes. You don't think I'm going to cheat at golf? On my own course?”
“I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.”
“I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.”
“I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.”
“I cheated on my FEARS, Broke up with my DOUBTS, Engaged with my FAITH
and now
I'm marrying my DREAMS" - Bernard Shaw
The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your Life.”
“I cheated on my fears,broke up with my doubts,got engaged to my faith,and now I'm marrying my Dreams.Soon I will be holding hands with Destiny!”
“I cheated when I gifted Tier. And this makes me smile, because it was so easy and simple. And it was something my father never understood.
Love is earned, not mandated.
So I loved Tier back.
Fiercely.”
Source: Return
“I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.”
“I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.”
“I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.”
“I check in with my vagina, because if I got hot and heavy last night, she and I need to talk. I do a couple Kegels, but Lassie doesn't start barking like I should be worried that Timmy fell down the well again. I go full CSI. I'm not sore. There's no evidence of orgasms. I check my hips and waist, no hot-sex injuries of any kind. I touch my lips, nope, not sore from kissing too much.”
Source: The Reclamation
“I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance”
“I check my voicemail once a week. If it's important, they'll come find me.”
“I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.”
“I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.”
“I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.”
Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“I checked my phone messages. Three in all. The first was from Joe. “Hey, Cupcake.” That was it. That was the whole message. The second was from Ranger. “Yo.” Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox.”
Source: To the Nines
“I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.”
“I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.”
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago.
("Wants")”
Source: Short Shorts
“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”
“I checked the big silver-and-white wall clock. It was the centerpiece in a construction-paper design that said:
TIME IS PASSING. WILL YOU?
FOCUS!
The O in focus was the clock.”
“I checked the emails the same theme that I could summarize them. "Rush, whatever you're talking about here - [Donald] Trump, you talk about the Republicans, [Barack] Obama and so forth - nothing's gonna change with the media the way it is. And all of it is academic, Rush. You know it".”
“I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.”
“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.”
“I cheer when Barnstorm is introduced. I’ve never known anybody on a team before. He waves a crutch in our direction, and a few of the other kids clap too. Then Rahim falls asleep. His head slumps over and conks the girl sitting next to him.
We get kicked out”
Source: The Unteachables
“I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.”
“I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.”