I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I felt like a pilgrim upon a rare and spiritual planet landing the soil of Mykonos,I ensured it could give me a high inspiration for a next new epic,which was machining inside my inner brains.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicycle races.”
“I felt like a primitive being who doesn't understand the rhythm of nature. Would it ever be possible to understand human beings? I was just a fistful of cosmic dust that had been given life and wanted to decipher the incomprehensible mysteries of our existence. Light becomes meaningful only from the perspective of darkness. The volcano would begin anew when darkness had covered the city. Perhaps we are able to see the light only after we've experienced the test of darkness.”
“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.”
Source: Saving Fish From Drowning
“I felt like a secret agent, relying on my wits and charm to keep me alive amidst an epidemic of violent death”
Source: Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”
“I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.”
“I felt like a stray dog he had found in a dark alleyway and decided to help save out of pity.”
Source: River Of Sorrows
“I felt like a street clown. My bones were with me and my spirit in the street, playing here and there.”
Source: In the midst of the womb
“I felt like a terrified first time stand-up act, about to be pelted with tomatoes and hounded from the stage. On second thoughts maybe no reaction was quite a positive response.”
“I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”
Source: Written On The Body
“I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.”
“I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)”
Source: The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
“I felt like a villain every time, but the truth was that I wasn't one, yet." - Diana.”
Source: Horns of Revenge
“I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.”
“I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.”
“I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.”
“I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?”
Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan
“I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.”
“I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.”
“I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.”
Source: Somebody I Used to Know
“I felt like an itchy princess whose fairy godmother had a bad day.”
Source: Worthy
“I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.”
Source: White Oleander
“I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.”
“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”
Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.”
“I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.”
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn’t as big as his! I don’t know what it is with guns, but once you’ve got your hand on one, you think you’re one of the untouchables.”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.”
“I felt like Elena from Vampire Diaries. She has two insanely hot men who are in love with her and would do anything for her. One of which, she would give almost everything to be with, and the other she continues to push away, even though she can't ever actually stay away, so she won't have to admit she was in love with him too. At least my guys weren't brothers.”
“I felt like everyone was shitting on me, like, "She didn't get that deal with Interscope. She got dropped! She won't get another project!" making it so much worse then any of it really was. I felt like they wanted me to fail and I thought, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm going to get my glory. I'm going to get my shine.”
“I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.”
“I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.”
“I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.”
“I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.”
“I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing.”
“I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.”
“I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.”
“I felt like I could never get enough of you even if I melted into you like snow on wet grass.”
Source: Rogue
“I felt like I could say anything to you. I think you felt the same way. I hope you did.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I felt like I'd been dumped onto a deserted beach. There was the ocean on one side and a dark forest on the other. No map to guide me, no radio for rescue. It was just me, alone, and I had to choose between drowning and walking into the unknown."
He shook his head. "You wouldn't have drowned."
I raised my eyebrows. "No?"
"You would have found a way to make some kind of machete and hacked your way through that forest no matter what. You're tough." He smiled a little. "It's what makes you such a pain in my ass."
I snorted at his crassness, and I felt another emotion sneaking in alongside my respect for his drive and his talent. Liking. I liked this man.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.”
“I felt like I didn't have [any] pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars.”
“I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.”
“I felt like I had been numb most of my life, and now I craved being able to have real feelings: the joy, the sadness, and everything in between.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“I felt like I had been run over by ‘Big Bird’ driving a London bus.”
Source: Shattered
“I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.”