I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.”
“I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.”
Source: the bell jar
“I hadnt known until that night that at its worst lust could be something close to anguish.”
Source: Stella Maris
“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me”
“I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.”
Source: Me Before You: A Novel
“I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it,
it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.”
“I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.”
“i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.”
“I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.”
Source: Europe: An Intimate Journey
“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“I half expected to hear that stupid cackling laugh again, but there was just the fluttering of new leaves blowing in the cooler breeze. The sunken moon sat on the cosmic ledge like a judge sentencing me to doom. In the bright moonlight, I felt the depth of my ineptitude. To throw off my rage at the world, at myself, I picked up a rock and chucked it across the field, and then I went back home.”
Source: No Winter Lasts Forever
“I half hoped he would be shirtless, but then wanted to smack myself at the ridiculous secret confession.”
Source: Tryst
“I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”
“I half shrug and keep my voice level. "This is how we gain experience, both in this game and in life. We win some battles. We lose others. We learn and we keep moving."
"I hate that life has gotten so complicated."
I smile. "I'm not sure it was ever uncomplicated."
Maddy shrugs. "I don't know. It was, at least, less complicated. It feels like everything is falling to pieces. And I don't know who I am without this game. I don't know where I can find other safe places that let me be myself.”
Source: Even If We Break
“I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)
“I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.”
“I hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside.”
“I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.”
“I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.”
Source: Darkfever: Fever Series
“I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.”
Source: Burn My Shadow
“I hand over a lot of things when I'm home. Mom tells me she doesn't like my shirt I want to buy, and I hand it over. Not the shirt itself, but my wish for that shirt. I want to watch one television show and she wants to watch another one -I hand that over too. It's easier that way. I even hand over my toenails when she asks. But I think sometimes you need to put a thing in a box -even if the box is inside your head -and store it away for yourself.”
Source: The Hidden Summer
“I hand round the chocolates, and we all pick out our favorite. Nadia takes the Spicy Ginger one, infused with fresh grated ginger. A great chocolate for winter mornings with a strong cup of coffee. Autumn's next and she takes her time as she chooses the English Rose: a delicate classic flavor which Clive makes to perfection, filled with a ganache infused with distilled rose petals---bliss. Chantal selects the Earl Grey Tea with its distinctive bergamot flavor which releases in delicious waves, leaving a long, slow aftertaste, making it feel like two chocolates for the price of one. Now it's my turn. What shall I go for? As always, I'm spoiled for choice. My hand hovers over them---every single one loved and desired. Lemon and Thyme? Szechuan Pepper? I settle on one of the specialties of the house---Sea-Salted Caramel.
Snuggling back down into Clive's cushions, I pause for a moment and enjoy the buzz of anticipation. Then I pop the chocolate into my mouth, savoring the soft, chewy texture of the caramel and the creaminess of the milk chocolate, until Clive's perfect twist kicks in and the taste of the unrefined sea salt from Brittany cuts through. The caramel melts deliciously in my mouth. Now, I truly am in Chocolate Heaven and I sigh with pleasure.
Forget diamonds. Chocolate, I think you'll find, is a girl's best friend.”
Source: The Chocolate Lovers' Club
“I hand you only one homework for life - the Homework of Humanity. Fix it, mend it, do whatever is necessary; throw out tradition, put in tradition, just build the world properly human.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I hand you the mead of the gods and you sniff at it?" Krampus let out a snort. "Drink, fool.”
Source: Krampus: The Yule Lord
“I handed her one of the little chiffon cakes, the top slathered in butter and sugar, and helped myself to one of the cheese-topped mamón. I tore it in half and a faint curl of steam rose up, as well as the smell of sweet butter and the sharp tinge of cheddar.”
Source: Arsenic and Adobo
“I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.”
“I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?”
Source: Twisted
“I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.”
“I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.”
Source: The Wednesday Wars
“I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts like, 'Who is God?' The Enterprise meets God in space; God is a life form, and I wanted to suggest that there may have been, at one time in the human beginning, an alien entity that early man believed was God, and kept those legends. But I also wanted to suggest that it might have been as much the Devil as it was God. After all, what kind of god would throw humans out of Paradise for eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. One of the Vulcans on board, in a very logical way, says, 'If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He's got so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a supreme being.”
“I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.”
“I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.”
“I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.”
“I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.”
“I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.”
“I hang between, in doubt to act or rest.”
Source: The Wings of Pegaus
“I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.”
“I hang my laundry on the line when I write.”
“I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.”
“I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.”
“I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.”
Source: Before the Sabbath
“I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.”
“I hang out with a lot of older people, so I've matured a little bit, but I do still have my immature side.”
“I hang out with a lot of the people I did when I was in high school, when I was in college, and I have a strong unit of people around me, whether it be friends or family, and if my head gets too big, they will definitely check me immediately.”
“I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.”