I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’m never opposed to sexual favors as payment.” He wrapped her ponytail around his fist, leaning close to her ear.
“I’m too exhausted to kick your ass. Drop my hair. You know better.”
“I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then that’s almost as good as being there yourself. You’re in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the world…”
Source: Mr. Fox
“I'm never serious. That's what my friends dislike about me.”
Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
“I'm never tempted by God but I like his trappings. Not tempted but I begin to understand why others are. With this feeling inside, with this wild love that threatens, what safe places might there be? Where do you store gunpowder? How do you sleep at night again? If I were a little different I might turn passion into something holy and then I would sleep again.”
Source: The Passion
“I’m nice until I’m not and when I’m not, I’ll never be nice again.”
“I’m Nicodemus Nightshade,” he said, dipping into a bow.
“Is that your real name?”
“Nicodemus is, from what I remember. Nightshade I chose because… well.” He did a twirl. “What else was I going to be? Doesn’t it make me sound intimidating?”
“You just did a twirl.”
“An *intimidating* twirl.”
Source: A Shadow's Vow
“I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.”
Source: Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“I'm no' a good man.”
Source: Smoldering Hunger
“I'm no angel, but I can show you heaven.
-Cain”
Source: DEAR. DOOR (Comic) Vol. 1
“I’m no artist, Yeezin,” said I, “I got no artistry in my eyes, no melody on my fingertips or no music in my breath. I’d want to but… no. All I do is just draw. It’s simple. Artist is just a dream.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
Source: Royal Decree
“I'm no coward behind a mask with no face to be worn by your tendencies to be gullibly wrong.”
Source: Poetic Cognition
“I’m no coward. But I’m no fool, either. I know when to fight, and I know when to survive to fight another day.
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I will not cease to exist. I will not die, no matter how much pain there is. I made a promise to someone. Someone who is my highest star, my brightest sun. Someone I want to be like. I wonder who it is.
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Inside that hollowed-out woman, there’s a place they can’t touch. There’s more to me than I thought there was. Something that no one and nothing can take away from me.”
Source: Dreamfever
“I'm no expert, but in my limited experience, women aren't born women. They start out as girls. And every girl, from the moment they can dream, imagines the rescue. The knight. The castle. Life in a fairy tale. If you don't believe me, watch boys and girls on a playground. No one teaches us to do this. The kid in us actually believes in things that are too good to be true. Before life convinces us we can't and they're not.
Then life kicks in. Boys become men. Girls become women. For any number of reasons we are wounded and, sadly, wounded people wound people. So many of us grow into doubting, hopeless, callous adults protecting hardened hearts. Medicating the pain. Life isn't what we imagined. Nor are we. And we didn't start out trying to get there. Far from it. But it's who we've become. One day we turn around, and what we once dreamed or hoped is a distant echo. We've forgotten what it sounded like. Once pure and unadulterated, the voice of hope is now muted by all the stuff we've crammed on top of it. And we're okay with that. For some illogical reason, we stand atop the mine shaft of ourselves, shoving stuff into the pipe that is us, telling our very soul, 'Shut up. Not another word.' Why? Because the cry of our heart hurts when unanswered. And the longer it remains unanswered, the deeper the hurt. In self-protection we inhale resignation and exhale indifference.
[Murphy Shepherd]”
Source: The Letter Keeper
“I’m no expert, by far, but I know it will fade in time. Somehow the hurt transforms into valuable wisdom that you wouldn’t trade for the world. Don’t try to forget; it only prolongs the inevitable. Just accept.”
Source: Time of the Rose
“I'm no expert on depression. I hadn't even understood my own after Will died. But I found Agnes's moods especially hard to fathom. My mother's friends who suffered depression—and there seemed to be a dismaying number of them—seemed flattened by life, struggling through a fog that descended until they could see no joy, no prospect of pleasure. It obscured their way forward. You could see it in the way they walked around town, their shoulders bowed, their mouths set in thin lines of forbearance. It was as if sadness seeped from them.”
Source: Still Me
“I'm no expert when it comes to confectionery, but I understand that unsalted butter is used as standard in baking. By contrast, the West buttercream uses salted butter. That salinity really brings out the overall sweetness of the cake, adding depth to its richness. The sponge has a satisfying density to it, declaring itself roughly on the tongue, scented like eggs and flour. The Christmas cakes I've eaten up until now have all been shortcakes, and it's always seemed to me that the delicate, fluffy whipped cream and the sweet sourness of the strawberries obliterate the aroma and the texture of the sponge.”
Source: Butter
“I‘m no good at loving people but…
I will love you
like the darkness loves the stars.
I'm the goddess of the night.
I will smear my ink
over your skin,
and leave paper cuts
where the light can get in.
I will break you
then make you whole.
You‘ll be the moon
lighting up the sky.
But I will never be done –
we‘ll dance together
until my darkness is gone.”
Source: I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You
“I’m no good. I’m telling you I’m crazy. Nothing in my life will ever be what you deserve. I internalize everything, and don’t tell anyone how I feel. I’m reckless where others are careful. I’m also completely at a loss. I have no idea how to keep what I want most,” he says. He didn’t use the word “fuck” once. He’s honestly telling me how he feels. “You.”
“I'm no healer," Han growled, thinking he seemed to be better at causing pain than relieving it.”
“I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I’m no longer a man, I’m a chorus”
Source: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“I’m no longer going to be uncomfortable just for you to smile and be comfortable.”
“I'm no longer pliéing and tenduing privately in my mirror; instead, I'm following my passion.
Pen and paper brings me complete joy.”
“I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”
Source: The Siren
“I'm No Poet (The Sonnet)
I thought I could bear the title poet,
But as it turns out, I cannot.
I can barely bear the title of scientist,
Let alone adding another next to it.
Each title feels like a burden herculean,
My heart cannot function with such burden.
If I am to create works of life and wholeness,
I must be free from titles, sane and insane.
My ideas are not born of mere thought,
If they were, there wouldn't be any torment.
My work comes from a land beyond labels,
A place deeper than thought can penetrate.
So you may call me whatever you like.
In my mind, I am but a nameless light.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“I’m no role model. Never see me as such. Your real role model is within you, work on it and bring it out.”
“I'm no stranger to fucking up.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“I’m no superhero. I’m not even a consistent “normal.”
Source: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
“I’m no tattoo artist, but I do have a knife.
And I’ll cut to the chase and say I use it every night. The first letter of your name
Starts with an “L”
So I keep drawing them lowercase
All over my shell.
People ask why I cut myself,
I say, “I’m just writing.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“I’m no werewolf, and I’m tired of hearing the word. I’m a Changeling, okay? And either you trust me or we call it quits right here.” It was Travis’s turn to fold his arms, as if he was daring her to convince him.”
Source: First Bite
“I’m nobody. I’m collateral damage with a lot of training.”
Source: Mind Games
“I'm nobody. I'm just a tiny little character in the big book of your life. And you're right. People do die. All of them. Bar none. So what does it even mean? I call someone crazy because not everybody is crazy. I call someone brilliant because not everyone is brilliant. But everybody dies. Squirrels die. Tress die. Skin cells die and your inner organs die and the person you were yesterday's dead too. So what does it mean to die? Not much.”
Source: We All Looked Up
“I’m nobody’s bitch.” He growled low and threatening.
“But you were mine.” Kane cut in deep and matter of fact.”
Source: The Boy with the Koi Tattoo
“I’m nobody’s girl.”
Source: Mind Games
“I’m nobody’s sidekick,” Annabeth growled. “And, Percy, his accent sounds familiar because he sounds like his mother. We killed her in New Jersey.”
Percy frowned. “I’m pretty sure that accent isn’t New Jersey. Who’s his—? Oh.”
It all fell into place. Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium—the lair of Medusa. She’d talked with that same accent, at least until Percy had cut off her head.
“Medusa is your mom?” he asked. “Dude, that sucks for you.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“I'm nobody special", she said.
"And that right there is part of the reason why I'm so fascinated," Gumby told her. "You have no idea how special you are. Most women would've rescheduled the appointment with Mr. Cotter, buy you didn't. And don't get me started on your compassion when it comes to dogs like Hannah.”
Source: Securing Sidney
“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I'm Noel, I'm Iftar - I'm oneness, I'm Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I’m not a bad man, Roy. I suspect you’re not, either. I think we just met under the wrong circumstances,” Harlan said. “I’m sure you can understand. When you have a child, you’ll do anything for them. Even if maybe it’s not... not the most advisable course of action.”
Source: Life for Life
“I’m not a bad person.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“I'm not a bad person for wanting. But I feel like I am.”
Source: Counting Down with You
“I'm not a big believer in most things occult,' Halina said. "But I do believe the world is a more mysterious place than we often recognize - or care to admit. If there is some natural power in the earth under us, some magnetic current yet undiscovered, and if there are individuals who can tap it, then they're probably those men we say have charisma. Not silly movie stars or singers, not the cheap charisma of entertainers. I'm speaking now of those with great charisma, the power to infect enormous numbers of others with their ego-driven fantasies. Hitler. Stalin. Mao.”
Source: Ashley Bell
“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.”
“i'm not a book!”
“I'm not a cat. Not normally, anyway. This is but a temporary... inconvenience.”
Source: Sentinel
“I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,” she said to him once. “You needn’t act like a hen.”
Source: Dead Man's Walk
“I'm not a child, Grandpa Vance. Wallpaper doesn't change on its own."
Instead of arguing, he asked, "What did it change to?"
As if he didn't know. "Butterflies. Crazy butterflies!"
"Just think of that room as a universal truth," Grandpa Vance said. "How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
“I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.”
“I'm not a citizen of the planet,
I'm the Engine of Earth Society.
I'm bound by no constitution,
I'm the Constitution of Humanity.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace