I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I liked the idea of him, a man who seemed to carry both the hard edges and the soft centers. A man who would not only touch my body but reach my soul.
And it was my soul that was begging for him.”
Source: Let Love Rule
“I liked the idea of showing a woman having sex because she wanted to be pleased instead of being desperate to please.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.”
“I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.”
“I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be very physical work, but there is a strong intellectual and technological component as well.”
“I liked the idea of working with Jean Reno and Mathieu Kassovitz; there was something logical for me. I thought it was a good thing to do. Actually, The Crimson Rivers movie was a big success, and it was one of the biggest successes I ever had in France.”
“I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.”
“I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.”
“I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.”
“I liked the idea that the act of painting might heal us both a little that day.”
Source: A Body in 3B
“I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.”
“I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also”
“I liked the look of both. Both had the potential to make me want to draw nearer. But when I did … there was nothing. I had a complete lack of that desire to get even closer—and less clothed—which everyone around me seemed to have.”
Source: Beyond the Black Door
“I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.”
“I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.”
“I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.”
“I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.”
“I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.”
“I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.”
“I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.”
“I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.”
“I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.”
“I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.”
Source: The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3)
“I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.”
“I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.”
“I liked the raise I finally received to twelve hundred a week. Even after all the deductions were taken from my salary it remained more money a week than I had once been able to make in six months. I had clothes, fame, money, a future, all the publicity I could dream of. I even had a few friends. And there was always a romance in the air. But instead of being happy over all these fairytale things that had happened to me I grew depressed and finally desperate. My life suddenly seemed as wrong and unbearable to me as it had in the days of my early despairs.”
Source: My Story
“I liked the results of the profits in the markets.”
“I liked the scenes with the baby, but the baby steals all the scenes that you're in. So that would get old after a while, because the baby is too perfect. I liked being high on ecstasy.”
“I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company.”
“I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.”
“I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.”
“I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.”
“I liked the structure of ballet.”
“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.”
“I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.”
Source: Charles Darwin: An Anthology
“I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.”
Source: Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
“I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.”
“I liked the way he cradled my cheeks in his hands as we kissed.
He pressed his body closer to mine. I moved backward until my butt touched something cold. He’d backed me into the cooler. The thought repulsed me for a second and I tried to shove him away.
"Kiss me back,” he whispered, and I responded, all thoughts of where we were flying out of my brain. I wriggled closer and touched my lips to his once again. His hands tangled in my hair and the tip of his tongue met mine.”
Source: Dead Is the New Black
“I liked the way he fought his desire, but I didn’t like him. I liked the silky slide of his dark hair as he hovered over me, unable to draw away any further … but I didn’t like him. I liked the way he let himself be weak enough for me to grab his face and force him back to me, but I definitely didn’t like him”
Source: A Dream of Embers
“I liked the way he looked at me. I thought he was the kindest man in the world. Maybe everybody was kind. Maybe even my father. But Mr. Quintana was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind. Dante was just like him.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.”
“I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.”
“I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”
“I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me -- but she didn't!”
“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
Source: Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
“I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.”
“I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.”
Source: The Secret Chord