I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'm a woman, Aleksey. I'm not the simplistic, flawless creature the world expects me to be. I'm imperfect, I'm multidimensional. I make mistakes all the time and I'll make even more as life challenges me. And I don't want to be afraid of messing things up. Firstly because I'll learn from my mistakes, but more importantly, they're what make me human.”
Source: The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
“I'm a woman and I can't be taken for granted.”
“I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep with a man, guilt if we say no. Guilt if we're lucky enough to survive for no good reason. I'm so damned sick of it. I've never been so tired of anything in my life. I just ... I just want to go to sleep forever!”
Source: Killers of a Certain Age
“I'm a woman; in so many ways I've been programmed to please. I took the job and spent time hunkered over figures, budgets, charts, and fiscal-year projections. I tried, but I hated it.
"Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say. He was right. I felt imprisoned by an impressive title, travel, perks, and a good salary. On the inside, I was miserable and lonely, and I felt as if I was losing myself. I spent weekends working on reports no one read, and I gave presentations that I didn't care about. It made me feel like a sellout and, worse, a fraud.
Now set free, like any inmate I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.”
Source: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
“I’m a woman intent on reinventing herself at an age where wiser, saner women are slowing down. The captivating magic of words has infiltrated my soul, my very being. The written word and all its exquisiteness is an essential part of me.”
“I'm a woman that never wanted to fit in. I just wanted to be loved for who I was then and who I am now. Thank God for the love I have now.”
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so frequent, the diversity of voices I engage with is far higher than in the pre-Internet age—and all this has helped me become more modest as a thinker, more open to error, less fixated on what I do know, and more respectful of what I don't. If this is a deterioration in my brain, then more, please.
"The problem is finding the space and time when this engagement stops, and calm, quiet, thinking and reading of longer-form arguments, novels, essays can begin. Worse, this also needs time for the mind to transition out of an instant gratification mode to me a more long-term, thoughtful calm. I find this takes at least a day of detox. Getting weekends back has helped. But if there were a way to channel the amazing insights of blogging into the longer, calmer modes of thinking ... we'd be getting somewhere.
"I'm working on it.”
“I'm a writer. I was just diagnosed with PTSD. This unfortunate diagnosis, I assure you will not stop me.”
“I'm a writer, not an editor. So if I make a typo or a mistake, take it as part of the job.”
“I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”
“I'm a young, good looking guy. I shouldn't be wasting all this charm on horses and cows." Cory waggled his eyebrows.”
Source: Second Chance Ranch
“I’m a young man, trained to do what is necessary, but all the training in the world can’t prepare you for the first time you have to kill another human being or see a buddy get blown apart. No, I’m not tough… I’m scared.”
Source: Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
“I'm about as American as chicken korma, apple pie, and chai, but even after forty years I'm still told to "go back."
Where, exactly?
In America, who (and what) are you when you're both "us" and "them"? When I'm a native but seen as a foreigner? When I'm a citizen but also seen as a perpetual suspect? When I'm your neighbor but also seen as an invader? When I'm a cultural creator but also seen as an eraser of white identity and European civilization?”
Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.”
“I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!”
Source: The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War
“I’m about to be arrested. Come with bail money!”
Source: Dine & Dash
“I’m about to begin halfway saying that—
—that she was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her. If she were an expressive creature she would say: the world is outside me, I am outside me.”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“I’m about to board a sunset dinner cruise with my fake girlfriend, my brother, and my ex, who’s married to said brother.
I need a drink. Stat.”
Source: Left Field
“I'm about to break the news to them when my eyes drift a little further down the screen. Context! 'Scant sample, mixed with dirt, fluff, detritus. Please repeat.' Did he... wank into a hoover bag?”
Source: Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
“I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's important that I'm properly dressed.”
Source: Doctor Who: Shroud of Sorrow
“I'm about to flip out, but then I suddenly realize what she's saying. She means she's not going to waste that bit of her brain that could be thinking about corsages by worrying about Amanda Elat, when there's nothing she can do about it now anyway. As a plan of action, it's not as dumb as I thought.”
Source: Beads, Boys and Bangles
“I'm about to go full Natasha Romanoff on his ass.”
“I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands in front of me. A gift form a sponsor. But why now? I’ve been in fairly good shape with supplies. Maybe Haymitch’s noticed my despondency and is trying to cheer me up a bit. Or could it be something to help my ear?
I open the parachute and find a small loaf of bread. It’s not the fine white of the Capitol stuff. It’s made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent. Sprinkled with seeds. I flashback to Peeta’s lesson on the various district breads in the Training Center. This bread came from District 11. I cautiously lift the still warm loaf. What must it have cost the people of District 11 who can’t even feed themselves? How many would’ve had to do without to scrape up a coin to put in the collection for this one loaf? It had been meant for Rue, surely. But instead of pulling the gift when she died, they’d authorized Haymitch to give it to me. As a thank-you? Or because, like me, they don’t like to let debts go unpaid? For whatever reason, this is a first. A district gift to a tribute who’s not your own.
I lift my face and step into the last falling rays of sunlight. “My thanks to the people of District Eleven,” I say. I want them to know I know where it came from. That the full value of the gift has been recognized.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I’m about to introduce you to all seven gods. When you meet them, don’t forget to tell them I’m the one one you worship on your knees.”
Source: Quicksilver
“I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
“I'm about to make an absurd BearPaw Duck Farm meme. To make a proper marketing GIF, there's only one rule: No matter what flavor you are hoping to achieve, you can never sprinkle in too much saxophone.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“I’m about to pee myself with relief that we’re all alive, but mostly because he is.
He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I’m in his arms in the time it takes to say “I love you,” which he does, stroking my hair, whispering my name and the words, “My mayfly.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“I'm Above The Law (The Sonnet)
Yes, I am above the law,
So is every single world builder.
It's only the apes without brain who,
Are tamed by the medieval lawmaker.
If you are to be a civilized being,
It is your duty to rise above the law.
If you can't tell right from wrong,
It is common sense you lack, not law.
It is nothing but a juvenile democracy,
That is founded on spineless law-abidance.
Civilized democracy instills accountability,
What it doesn't demand is boneheaded obedience.
You have a heart, brain and spine, why not use them!
Stand up o citizen justice, and keep the law as servant.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“I'm accepting all the emotions. I try to recognize what's going on, because I'm the only one who can feel [it], and so what I'm trying to do is, whenever I feel--discover this negative emotion, I tell myself, 'I believe you. I'm believing myself. This is what happened.' [...] I just accept it and listen to myself.”
“I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.”
Source: Our Story Ends Here
“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.”
“I'm accustomed to toxicity and can’t control myself when I’m near it.”
“I’m actually a big fan of Jesus. It’s his father I disdain. There’s definitely abuse going on in that household …”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“I'm actually afraid of the people who like me.”
“I’m actually an old woman, no more arsing around with faking youth. The world could see my wrinkles and dodder a while back. I’m only a spring chicken inside my deluded brain. On the outside, I’m a chicken-neck. Not a chick anymore. Just an old bird.”
Source: Bloomer
“I’m actually here with Crispin. You didn’t forget about your tutoring date with him, did you?”
I wrinkle my nose. “I thought I told him no?”
Just then, Crispin comes into view on his way up the walk.
“I thought I told you no,” I call out to him.
“Ah,” he replies, joining James in the doorway. “You did. But I’ve been told that when a woman says no, she really means yes. So I read between the lines.”
“Well, whoever told you that was wrong,” I say, trying to regain my composure. “Unless you’re asking that woman if Brad Pitt is sexier than you. In that case, no always means yes.”
Crispin looks faintly amused, but James arches an eyebrow. “Always?” he asks.
Personally I’m not overly fond of Brad Pitt. But I unconvincingly reply, “I’m just telling it like it is.”
James shrugs carelessly. “Well, there’s no accounting for some people’s taste.”
“Amen,” I murmur.”
Source: Rising Calm
“I’m actually not a tactile person,” Fiona said.
That was such a big lie she couldn’t look him in the eye. Not a tactile person. All her powers were concentrated in the most intimate tactile experience possible.
Armando's grin split even wider. “I’d love the chance to prove you wrong.”
“I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity and his calm and joyfulness. We would probably have said 'in spite of' the adversity, but it seems like he's saying 'because of' the adversity that this has evolved for him.”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“I'm acutely aware that I'm, you know, could go any day now, but I don't know why it doesn't concern me. I'm not afraid of it. And I have that feeling, totally against anything intellectual I have, that I'm gonna be alright.”
“I'm addicted to cheese. It's a real addiction, but I get no love like the alcoholics.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“I’m addicted to solving my problems, so you can pay me for the solution.”
“I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells...”
Source: Encounters with the Archdruid
“I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”
“I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen are pleased to think ladies are ornamental, and it is an ill-advised ornament who contradicts her gentleman.”
Source: Rhett Butler's People
“I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“I'm afraid for Ray. These young ones aren't afraid of anything. They know about what happened during the height of the movement, but they can't feel it. Knowing it and living it are two different things. It's history to them. They don't know what we've seen. Can you imagine what would happen if that lady got it in her head to call the police on some pretext or other? Why, they would sweep through this place, arresting all our boys and men over the age of thirteen. Remember the killing of those three boys turning out to vote? Remember Emmett Till?”
Source: Wade in the Water
“I'm afraid, Gringo, I must agree with our distinguished folklorist and foremost witness to the ontological revelations of the patterns of history,' intercedes (with a respectful nod to Schultz) Professor Costen Migod McCamish, Doctor of Nostology and Research Specialist in the Etiology of Homo Ludens, 'and have come to the conclusion that God exists and he is a nut.”
Source: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
“I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself, to begin with, and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Worlds
“I'm afraid I don't know their address, but there it is, when people are gone they're gone, isn't it.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I'm afraid I don't know WTF. I only discovered LOL from Joyce last week. I'm going to assume that it doesn't refer to the Warsaw Transit Facility, as that was shut down in 1981 when the Russians came sniffing.”
Source: The Thursday Murder Club