I Quotes
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“I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.”
Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)
“I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery.”
“I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.”
“I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.”
“I hardly know her but whenever I see her I lose my mind. I know I should run away, but I can’t.
“That’s called sexual attraction, honey,” Max said. “It’s very nice. But be careful. It can burn you bad.
Believe me I know.”
Source: Juliana
“I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.”
“I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.”
“I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.”
Source: On My Painting - Max Beckmann
“I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.”
“I hardly recognized the sound that escaped me when his cock slid home. It was raw, primal, and my back bowed off the bed, body arching up, up, up against his as I urged him on. It was like we had never been apart when he began moving, his body pistoning into mine with so much pent-up desire, the force of it knocked my head against the headboard. I didn't care; the small blossom of pain just ratcheted up my pleasure, made me want him to go a little harder, a little rougher. I gripped his ass in both hands and dug the sharp points of my nails into him as he moved and swore above me, coaxing him forward, willing him to never stop.
"You feel... so fucking good," he gritted out. The tendons in his neck stood out in sharp relief as he strained above me, his dark eyes cloudy with desire as he fought to maintain eye contact.”
Source: Road Trip With a Vampire
“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.”
“I hardly remember not hating my body. I got most of my seven arm tattoos when I was nineteen. I wanted to be able to look at my body and see something I didn't loathe, that was part of my body by my choosing entirely. Really, that's all I ever wanted.”
“I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.”
“I hardly see myself as a futurist.”
“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”
“I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.”
“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”
Source: Stravaganza: City of Masks
“I hardly think so. If I was ashamed, I wouldn’t have testified on your behalf, admitting the truth that I was your father in front of the United States Naval Court. But, I don’t think now is the time to discuss these matters.”
Source: Murder on the Naval Base
“I hardly wear any makeup.”
“I hardly wear any makeup. TV and film makeup is very heavy, so it's nice to give my skin a break when I'm not filming. And I'm really grungy, probably too much so. Although when I go out, I love to dress very glamorous and quite sexy.”
“I harken to the call of my heart, embracing the depth that flows liquid ambered and animal soft within my cells.
The dark abyss of denial has always been a poor mans trade for the guiding light of emotional wisdom.
This crust of mortal skin is baptised with tear streaked holy waters. I rise to my heart with an uncommon courage and wade soul deep.
Tissue thin ripples of redemption drift across the pain towards my future self, bathing me in hope. I rise and step closer to all that I AM.”
“I harken to the call of my heart, embracing the depth that flows liquid ambered and animal soft within my cells.
The dark abyss of denial has always been a poor mans trade for the guiding light of emotional wisdom.
This crust of mortal skin is baptised with tear streaked holy waters. I rise to my heart with an uncommon courage and wade soul deep.
Tissue thin ripples of redemption drift across the pain towards my future self, bathing me in hope. I rise and step closer to all that I AM.
Kristin Granger”
“I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.”
Source: Adventures in the Arts
“I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.”
“I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits.”
Source: Lord Peter Views the Body
“I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.”
Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
“I hasten to sleep so that I might dream
and colour my mind with a myriad of things.”
Source: The Army of Five Men
“I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.”
“I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.”
“I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.”
Source: MARY CARY
“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.”
“I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.”
“I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they?”
“I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.”
“I hate a man who skins the land.”
“I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.”
“I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.”
“I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.”
“I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.”
“I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander’s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight’s opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them." - Valek”
Source: Poison Study
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.”
“I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.”
Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...
“I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.”
Source: Barbara Bush: A Memoir
“I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll