I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I knew it. We've expired and gone to Disneyland.”
Source: Sahara
“I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that’s what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice.
His was just collateral.”
Source: The Tragedy of Knowledge
“I knew it would be you”
Source: Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection
“I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.”
“I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.”
“I knew it would end. I pretended I didn't because that seemed like the human thing to do. But I knew. She wanted monogamy, indefinitely. It's who she was. I wanted non-monogamy, indeterminately. It's who I am. We settled on monogamy, indeterminately, sacrificing parts of ourselves to be together and calling it love.”
Source: Screaming into Pillows
“I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen”
“I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.”
Source: Stories & Texts for Nothing
“I knew it would take more than a bomb to get rid of you.”
Source: Firestorm
“I knew it wouldn't last, that the reality would come snaking back in, but for a moment I saw it, the futility of trying to mold love into an expected shape. The foolishness of whining when it didn't fit.”
Source: On Little Wings
“I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.”
“I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.”
“I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?”
“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.”
“I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I knew it. You’re an alien,” said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. “Yes, I’m an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I’m going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can’t really be friends.” “I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you’re stealing my boyfriend? That’s a step too far!”
“I knew it... I'm surrounded by assholes!”
“I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.”
“I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.”
“I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.”
“I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.”
“I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called Thanks for CBS.”
“I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.”
“I knew life
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light.”
Source: Magic City
“I knew Linda Cardellini from when we did ER together - she was always great, such a cool spirit.”
“I knew little else, but I always knew you.”
“I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.”
“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.”
“I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.”
“I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.”
Source: What It Is Like To Go To War
“I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.”
“I knew more about molecular biology than I did about women, and I don’t even know what molecular biology is.”
Source: Watch Me Die
“I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.”
“I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.”
“I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.”
Source: The Beach
“I knew my childhood had been rough, and many times I had felt so alone. Daiyu must have experienced a different kind of loneliness. But in the end, maybe lonely was lonely.”
Source: Want
“I knew my destiny from a young age. Something happened when I was very young and I didn't know what it meant. And slowly but surely I know this is only getting better. Writing I love. The acting will carry on as long as I can remember lines.”
“I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.”
“I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.”
Source: Ansel Adams: in the National Archives
“I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.”
“I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.”
Source: Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends
“I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.”
“I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.”
Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.”
“I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.”
“I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.”
“I knew my time would come I just had to stay focused and disciplined and if you work hard good things happen. I am right where I am supposed to be.”
“I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, "How are you feeling today, Tandy?" and I responded "I'm not”
“I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.”
Source: Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules