Quotessence
Home / Quotes / I Quotes

I Quotes

Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.

All I Quotes

“I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?”

PeopleFeelsHumansKindLittlesForgetFieldsMy FriendsPressureTownsTrainProfessionSillyFlightFortunateAviationSundayFarmersForget ItAntsSilly LittleDormitory
Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Create image

“I don't understand what the president's [Donald Trump] position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and [Vladimir] Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.”

WorldI CanPresidentMilitaryDangerPositionTrumpNeighborCoreRussiaObjectivesWorld HistoryPutinAlliancesNatoGreatest Military
Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
Create image

“I don't understand what you're still doing here." She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away. "No!" He pulled her back. "Don't leave. It's just that you've never—we've never... gotten this far." He closed his eyes. "Will you say it again?" he asked, almost shyly. "Will you tell me ... what I am?" "You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. "I'm in love with an angel.”

IfsStillsEyeTurnsPleasureKissingAngelHis EyesLuce And Daniel
Author:Lauren Kate
Create image

“I don't understand why America embraces Lady GaGa and Katy Perry and all of the "pop stuff" as much as they do. The Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber are also included, and I don't really get any of that. Maybe that means that I am old. That stuff seems like it isn't that "authentic." Katy has a cool writing style though, and her lyrics can be poignant and mean stuff from time to time. I really appreciate that about her.”

WritingMeanStyleBrotherAppreciateEmbracePoignantWriting Style
Author:Matt Thiessen
Create image

“I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it was 30 years ago, get over it! But people say, No, no, it changed my life, and I don't understand that. I can't take that seriously as a producer of what I consider to be art. If they want to collect it, fantastic. If you see what I saw when I took it and it means something to you, then by all means collect it. If I make some money, um, fine.”

PeopleIfsWantWritingYearsMeanArtI CanHouseHoursSawsChangedFinePleaseYears AgoProducersFantasticOver ItGet OverChanged My Life
Author:Graham Nash
Create image

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

PeopleWellsCareUnderstandingCuttingFoodHealthDrugEatingAskingConservativeHealth CareDietsVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsBalancedFoundersPhysiciansResearchersVegetarian HealthDrasticVegan DietCholesterolVegan HealthVegetarian DietPlant Based Diet
Author:Dean Ornish
Create image

“I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”

WantShouldMindPersonsImportantHardJobsHellBlowStakesAcceptableShallowImportant JobsShallow Person
Author:Meghan Daum
Create image

“I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What's wrong with that idea?”

PeopleHumansIdeasSoulBodySpiritualSpiritualityUniverseHuman BeingsWonderfulCreationEvolutionConceptsEvolvePackagesFluidSpiritualism
Author:Garth Stein
Create image

“I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)”

PeopleMeanCountrySpeakLanguagePaintingAssumingNativeImmigrantsSpeakersIdiomBaffled
Author:Jodi Picoult
Create image