I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I hated that term. Fallen. I hated it almost as much as I hated Sexy Lexie. Fallen suggested an involuntary movement. I'd clearly made a decision to be what I was now. I didn't fall; I had jumped with both feet.”
Source: Descended in Vengeance:
“I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.”
Source: Totally Joe
“I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.”
“I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.”
“I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.”
“I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time, what's more natural than thousands of people sharing your music because they just really like it?”
“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.”
“I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.”
“I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.”
“I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.”
“I hated the fact that I had to live with this fear, the fear of being helpless. [page 178]”
Source: Kindred
“I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.”
“I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.”
“I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.”
“I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya”
Source: Remember
“I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.”
“I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.”
Source: Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End
“I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.”
“I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.”
“I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.”
“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
“I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable.”
“I hated the people offering stupid prayers to a creature that wouldn't even notice when it stepped on them. Do you think ants pray to terrans? Do you think they worship the boot that squashes them? No. They're smarter than that, than us. Ants know the inexorable truth of the situation: big thing from sky means danger, get the fuck out of the way.”
Source: Sins of the Mother
“I hated the person I had become through my cancer experience – she was unfamiliar, and that felt strange and incredibly uncomfortable. And to feel that way is perfectly normal.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.”
“I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!”
Source: The Death Cure
“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.”
Source: Traitor to the Throne
“I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.”
“I hated the royal wedding.”
“I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?”
“I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.”
“I hated the smell of these books- the decaying rot of the pages, the mocking whisper of the paper, the rough skin of the binding. I looked at the piece of paper, at all those words I didn't know.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I hated the soup and felt little for the can.”
Source: Just Kids
“I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.”
“I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.”
“I hated the things that grew out of my body, my breasts, my hair—even as I imagined they could someday make me sexy. That's what I wanted to be: sexy, not comfortable; pretty, not able; wanted, not admired.”
Source: Advice I Ignored: Stories and Wisdom from a Formerly Depressed Teenager
“I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.”
“I hated the threat that if I did not appear on television, I would not be released on the 31st day. Why should a television appearance affect the length of my detention? Surely they must decide whether to release me or not according to culpability, not according to whether I agree to a television appearance. What has a television appearance got to do with the security of my country?”
Source: Beyond The Blue Gate: Recollections of a Political Prisoner
“I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. So I'd skipped it. They let you do that in honors, you were much freer. I had been so free I'd spent most of my time on Dylan Thomas. A friend of mine, also in honors, had managed never to read a word of Shakespeare; but she was a real expert on the Four Quartets.”
Source: the bell jar
“I hated the way they spoke like that. As if there could be no measurement of their past in years. As if I, so young, couldn't possibly understand the way time worked, and what it did to people.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.”
“I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.”
“I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.”
“I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.”
Source: Forever
“I hated this new breed of pacifist Indian revolutionary. So often they acted like we were all just good friends who happened to disagree about something, and that once the issue was resolved – obviously in their favour – we’d go back to taking tea and being the best of chums. It made punching them in the face morally difficult.”
Source: Smoke and Ashes
“I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.”
Source: Forever
“I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'”
“I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.”
“I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.”
“I hated to think beyond the next weekend, because I wasn’t sure how our futures were going to align. I imagined Elliot going away to Harvard, and me going somewhere in California, and we’d slowly turn into vague acquaintances. The idea was repellent.”
Source: Love and Other Words