I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.”
Source: The Rules Do Not Apply
“I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.”
“I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.”
“I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.”
Source: Flash Gordon: Mongo, the planet of doom
“I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.”
“I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.”
“I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.”
“I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.”
“I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.”
“I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.”
Source: Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit
“I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.”
“I decided I"m going to live-or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I decided I might be able to substitute a tobacco cigarette with one made from spearmint. I made up my mind that if I was going to keep smoking, I had to find something less expensive to smoke. I did not mention this in my composition book, but have decided to mention it now. It is a good example of a bad substitute. There is no safe cigarette.”
Source: Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You
“I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.”
“I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.”
“I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.”
“I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.”
“I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.”
“I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.”
“I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.”
“I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.”
“I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.”
“I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.”
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.”
“I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself”
“I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.”
“I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.”
“I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.”
“I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.”
Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography
“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”
“I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”
“I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.”
Source: The Bandit Queen Of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey From Peasant To International Legend
“I decided I would never do interviews again.”
“I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car in drive and hit the gas. I felt as if I'd jumped off a sinking ship and was in a life raft with my little girl, my face turned away from the horror, rowing, rowing, as fast and as hard as I could in the opposite direction.”
Source: Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir
“I decided I would not sell this farm if the Devil himself promised me pretty girls, fame, or all the money in the world.”
Source: When Saigon Surrendered: A Kentucky Mystery
“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it. I thought I would spend the summer reading "Finnegan's Wake" and writing my thesis. Then I would be way ahead when college started at the end of September, and able to enjoy my last year instead of swotting away with no make up and stringy hair, on a diet of Benzedrine, the way most of the seniors taking honors did, until they finished their thesis. Then I thought I might put off college for a year and apprentice myself to a pottery maker.
Or work my way to Germany and be a waitress, until I was bilingual.
Then plan after plan started leaping through my head, like a family of scatty rabbits. I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by the wires. I counted one, two, three.... nineteen telephone poles dangled in space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
Source: the bell jar
“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.”
Source: the bell jar
“I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.”
“I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.”
“I decided if I'm going to have roommates, I'd rather they be my family.”
“I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.”
“I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.”
“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.”
“I decided in my teens that I would not have children. Now that I am in my 40's, I'm glad I never did. I always believed it best to not bring a life into an existence that is uncertain.”
“I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
“I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.”
Source: Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover
“I decided, long ago, back-room negotiations with a nine iron and a pen, witness tampering, and suppression of evidence weren’t for me. That’s
what was expected of an independent lawyer hired by Louis Fernoza.
I wanted the corner office overlooking a
cityscape, the fine car and house, and the ability to sleep at night with a clear conscience. I’d say I achieved it all but not without a price.”
Source: Dial QR for Murder
“I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.”