I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I felt so nourished by the process of making [Moana], of you're always engaged with other artists from different disciplines, and it's about bringing your art form to the table. It's so many art forms mashed together.”
“I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.”
“I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt closer to other women - to my sisters, to my mom. I felt empowered, like, 'I've given birth. I did it! There's nothing I can't handle.' I've really enjoyed this time that I have taken to be with Suri, as well as the challenges of the first couple of months: feeding and pumping, learning to decipher what each cry means - is she hungry? Is she tired? Does she need a fresh diaper? - and figuring out how to really help her.”
“I felt so sure then. ‘Course, I was younger. It’s easier to be certain of things then. The older you get the more you see how certainty depends on one blindness or another.”
Source: Pew
“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'”
“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“I felt someone behind me. I stopped and looked back... There was Mom, crawling behind me, without saying anything... Her tears falling to the floor... All my suppressed emotions suddenly burst out and I started crying.”
Source: 1 Litre of Tears
“I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.”
“I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.”
“I felt something rise inside me then, a feeling of joy and anticipation so great that it seemed as if this world had briefly stopped turning, like there was just me and the universe and a million good things that could happen if you only hung on in there.”
Source: Still Me
“I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.”
“I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.”
“I felt somewhat like a fire hydrant – with everyone marking their territory around me.”
“I felt sorry for girls who didn't write in journals. It was the best way to deal with life sometimes.”
Source: Sealed with a Kiss
“I felt sorry for her, baby, guilty and responsible. That's all it was. Once she started talking about you, I could have thrown her off the deck with no remorse. I know there are no words that can take away what you saw, just please say you understand. Liz is nothing to me, Evan, but you...you're everything.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.”
“I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.”
“I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.”
Source: My Brilliant Friend
“I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.”
Source: The Cement Garden
“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.”
“I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.”
“I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”
“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan”
“I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.”
“I felt such a stranger there, like a poor lodger. One must be with one's own people.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I felt such desire for him, such murderous and vengeful desire, that I was trembling.”
Source: In the Cut
“I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.”
Source: White Oleander
“I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?”
“I felt supported and celebrated for my spirit and who I was. No one asked me to change or be anything but myself. Running allowed me to rediscover—and celebrate—my strengths.”
Source: Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds
“I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.”
“I felt sure, glaring at the children as they settled onto the sand with their shovels, that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either.
Then, looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We were all vulnerable.”
Source: The Historian
“I felt sure that everyone was looking at me and then realized that no one was, and I experienced the distinct shame of each.”
Source: The Wonder Spot
“I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.”
“I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.”
Source: House of the Tiger King Paperback
“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.”
Source: Downtown
“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”
Source: Criss Cross
“I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.”
“I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.”
“I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.”
“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. "Have you thought of a story?" I was asked every morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative”
Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus
“I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”
“I felt that days, weeks, months, and years of my life were wasted by the removal of stuff. There were more important things I would rather have been doing. But I continued, and eventually, I felt lighter and freer than I had ever felt in the years of big houses with each room filled to the brim.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father's house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not to me.”
“I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.”
Source: Invisible Man
“I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.”