I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.”
“I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!”
“I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?”
“I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.”
“I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.”
“I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.”
“I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.”
Source: Austenland: A Novel
“I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save
“I couldn't sell pills no more [because my] homie went to jail. I was just dirt broke. I went to TDE and was literally living in the studio where you record. I went damn near a whole two years not getting sleep because there was always somebody there recording. I was taking baths with dishwashing liquid.I was one of the dudes [who] would never ask for nothing so I would never ask for soap.”
“I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.”
“I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'.”
“I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.”
“I couldn't skate, I couldn't shoot, and I wasn't very intelligent. But I was spectacular”
“I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.”
“I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.”
“I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.”
“i couldn't speak the language of his feelings”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.”
“I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.”
“I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.”
“I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.”
“I couldn't stand for a flag that represented tyranny and oppression. Not just from a domestic perspective but from a global one. It's supposed to represent equality and justice for all, and I believe the flag is a symbol that's supposed to represent the character of the people. When that character is not in line with what I believe in, then I'm opposed to that symbol. I couldn't see myself standing and still can't.”
“I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.”
Source: Crescendo
“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”
Source: Lancelot
“I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.”
“I COULDN'T stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?”
“I couldn't stand the fact that anybody else was dressing like me. It was supposed to be for me and my friends, not my daughter and her friends!”
“I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.”
“I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.”
“I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.”
“I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.”
“I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise."”
“I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.”
“I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.”
“I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.”
“I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.”
Source: Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night
“I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.”
Source: A Certain Slant of Light
“I couldn't take my eyes off of Stan [Lee]! As good as the movie is, all I could think about is, "What's he thinking?" So the movie ended, and then he, very whimsically, expressed all of his feelings about how long he waited, and how the TV shows in the '70s were all, "If only they could do this," and now they could. And he didn't get choked up and blubbery, but he was moved. Like, "Ohmigod, it happened while I was alive." And I can't believe I got to see that. He was very raw. It was quite beautiful.”
“I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.”
“I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.”
“I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.”
“I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.”
Source: Dreamland: A Novel
“I couldn't tell how many times I've been to Japan off the top of my head, I just have a few standout moments that were very defining and inspirational at different parts of my life. As far as moving there, I don't know. That's a tall order there. I feel there's people that go so far as to do that, and good for them, but I just can't. For me it's not a misplaced passion or a weird infatuation - it's more like I've just had a good chance to realize how immensely their art has affected our American culture, and I don't take it for granted. I've got a very big appreciation.”
“I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.”
“I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.”