I Quotes
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“I'm not sure what the adaptive advantage could be to share an innate and collective misery.”
Source: The Passenger
“I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.”
Source: Bad Blood
“I'm not sure what the secret to happiness is but I'm pretty sure it all starts with going outside.”
“I'm not sure what they mean by "revenge is a dish best served cold." But I do know this - nobody's ever satisfied with a single helping.
- Heman Lindon, McPherson, Kansas ( a character in Heels Over Head )”
Source: Heels over Head
“I'm not sure whether it's even possible to talk about the suffering of others without exploiting that suffering.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I'm not sure whether you're confident or delusional, but thanks anyway.”
Source: Spell Bound
“I’m not sure which matters more—where the seed comes from, or where it takes root and grows.”
Source: A Wish After Midnight
“I'm not sure who faked their orgasm first, but thankfully it was over rather quickly.”
Source: Freaks I've Met
“I'm not sure why anyone on the face of the planet would want to use a bow and arrow. I mean, it seems like a fairly limited field of expertise and usefulness. Unless your name is Katniss.”
Source: Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me
“I'm not sure why, but my instinct today is to go with the taste of home. Some chicken thighs, some poblano peppers, a bag of rice, Mexican crema (I'm surprised to find the real stuff, not that whipped-cream-looking shit they serve in Tex-Mex restaurants). Tortillas and Oaxaca cheese. I lose myself in the aisles, fingers trailing over heirloom tomatoes, herbs and produce and packets of exotic spices I can never find at home.”
Source: North of Happy
“I'm not sure why God made us the way He did... As to why we're here, well, I think maybe we're here to learn to love Him. To learn to love God and to want to be with Him. I think we're here to cultivate our longing for heaven. '
Luke sighed. 'Heaven,' he said, 'seems like a long, long way off, Dad.'
Jack nodded. 'It does. But I think God gives us glimpses of heaven from time to time to help up nurture the desire... I see glimpses every spring when the earth renews itself. And sometimes I see glimpses in a worship service when I'm singing about Jesus and all of a sudden I feel like I'm right there in His arms.”
Source: In All Deep Places
“I'm not sure why I find it beautiful to devote oneself obsessively to the creation of something that doesn't matter, but I do.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I'm not sure why I'm still here talking to you.'
'Perhaps you feel indebted to me since I watched over you while you were unconscious.'
'I was unconscious for a few moments. It's not like you stood guard for endless hours.'
'I am quite important. Those moments felt like hours.'
'I do not like you,' I said.
He eyes shifted to mine, and that curve of his lips remained. 'But you see, you do. That's why you're still here and no longer threatening to claw my eyes out.'
I snapped my mouth shut.
Ash winked.
'The clawing of the eyes could still happen,' I warned him.
'I don't think so.' He bit down on that lower lip of his again, the act snagging my gaze once more. 'Besides the fact that you know you won't succeed, you said I was beautiful, and clawing my eyes out would ruin that, wouldn't it?”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“I’m not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to bring Kanish to Mel Odious Sound yesterday. Bringing a Billionheir to a large recording complex full of Producers is like opening a bag of chips at a seagull convention. It wouldn’t be long before every Producer within earshot swooped in to aggressively pitch his latest and greatest pet project, most of which would likely prove unprofitable.
Rev is obviously going to pitch a project, and it very well may be something amazing. But as I’ve pointed out, in order for Kanish to make a profit, he would have to pick up half the Publishing—a non-starter for the Rev. He’s not a Songwriting Producer, so he likely doesn’t have a sufficient portion of the Publishing to share. And even if he did, no seasoned Producer is going to give half of their equity in a song in order to basically secure a small loan from an outside investor. There’s no upside.
For starters, Kanish has no channels of Distribution beyond Streaming, which is already available to anyone and everyone who wants it, and which is currently only profitable for the Major Labels and the stockholders of the Streaming services themselves. Everyone else is getting screwed. And please don’t quote me the Douchebag Big Tech Billionaires running big Streaming Corporations. They are literally lining their pockets with the would-be earnings of Artists and Songwriters alike. What they claim as fair is anything but.
Frankly, I don’t think we should be comfortable with Spotify taking a 30 percent margin off the top, and then disbursing the Tiger’s Share of the remaining 70 percent to the Major Labels who have already negotiated top dollar for access to their catalog. This has resulted in nothing but some remaining scraps trickling down to the tens of thousands of Independent Artists out there who just want to make a living. You can’t make a living off scraps, or even a trickle, for that matter.
Mark my words, we are currently witnessing the greatest heist in the annals of the Music Business, and that’s saying something given its history. Can you say Napster?
Stunningly, the only place that Songwriters can make sufficient Performance Royalties is radio—a medium that is coming up on its hundred-year anniversary. To make matters worse, the Major Distributors still have radio all locked up, and without airplay, there’s no hit. So even now, more than twenty years into the Internet revolution, the odds of breaking through the artistic cacophony without Major-Label Distribution are impossibly low. So much for the Internet leveling the playing field.
At this point, only Congress can solve the problem. And despite the fact that Streaming has been around since the mid-aughts, Congress has done nothing to deal with the issue. Why? Because it’s far cheaper for Big Tech to line the pockets of lobbyists and fund the campaigns of politicians who gladly ignore the issue than it is to pay Artists and Songwriters a fair rate for their work, my friends.
Same is it ever was.
Just so I’m clear, there is a debate to be had as to how much Songwriters and Artists should be paid for Streaming. A radio Spin can reach millions. A Stream rarely reaches more than a few listeners. Clearly, a new method of calculation is required. But that doesn’t mean that we should just sit by as the Big Tech Douchebags rob an entire generation of royalties all so they can sell their Streaming Corporation for billions down the line. I mean, that is the end game, after all. At which point, profit for the new majority stockholder will be all but impossible. How will anyone get paid then?”
Source: #Mixerman and the Billionheir Apparent
“I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.”
Source: the bell jar
“I'm not sure why it makes me feel weird to know that people are playing something I had a hand in creating, but it does. It feels too public somehow, like this thing that I do on my own to stay sane doesn't belong completely to me anymore, or something.”
Source: You Should See Me in a Crown
“I'm not sure why it makes me feel weird to know that people something I had a hand in creating, but it does. It feels too public somehow, like this thing that I do on my own to stay sane doesn't belong completely to me anymore, or something.”
Source: You Should See Me in a Crown
“I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.”
“I'm not sure why you gave me such a personal book if you cared about it so much."
Isabella's fuse, famously long, now blew in an instant.
"I gave it to you... because I thought that maybe, somewhere, inside of you... there was the tiniest semblance of a soul."
Isabella's cheeks were bright red, as was her neck, as hot tears filled her eyes.
"What did you say?"
"I thought that maybe... maybe beneath all of the... all of the hair products and the lip gloss and the eye shadow," said Isabella, her voice shaking, along with her hands, "there was an actual human being inside of you. But... there's nothing human about you."
The look on Molly's face was one of both shock and awe at the fury stirred up in Isabella.
"You're just... an empty vessel. You're all exterior. And you'll never write a great cookbook or do anything great in your life, because... because whatever part of you was human, whatever part of you existed that could connect with other people, is gone and it's all been replaced by... by... Botox."
Isabella put her mug down and headed for the door. Molly, too stunned to speak, watched her.
As Isabella pulled open the handle, she turned back one last time:
"Good luck with the cookbook. You can delete me from your phone. I'm going to keep you in mine and change your name to an emoji, just like you did with me. Only your emoji is going to be... it's going to be a smiling piece of shit!”
Source: Food Person
“I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute."
"Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.”
Source: City of Bones
“I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.”
Source: God's Daughter
“I’m not surprised that in a time of hideous precarity so many of us would find ourselves tempted by the false grandiosities of certainty. But we must not confuse certainty with safety — in fact, certainty is the end of the imagination and therefore the definition of unsafety. Nor should we confuse unknowing with ignorance. To unknow is to admit limits, to acknowledge that others might have answers you lack, to recognize our exquisite interdependence as people, and best of all to seek within. To dwell in unknowing is to put your phone away and be for a brief moment completely, imperfectly, human.
In times like ours unknowing is excellent proof against our society’s inhumanity, against the lizard supremacy of certainty.
There is wisdom in the question deferred, the question without an immediate answer. Tolerance and unity, too.
And art, as well, if we can tolerate the fact that we are all forever a question without answers, a beautiful unknown, an infinite unknowing.”
“I’m not surprised to find Dad and I tiptoeing around the edge of conversation. After all, we’ve never spent a great deal of time discussing affairs of the heart. I had classmates at school who had startlingly candid exchanges with their fathers, frequently settling down on their living room sofa to confer on relationships, sex, drugs and mental health. The nearest my own father ever came to opening up about relationships came a few weeks before my twelfth birthday, when I awoke to find a copy of ‘The Joy of Sex’ by my bedside. Inside, Dad had written Any questions, just ask! in a jaunty script, but I think we both sensed that at least one of us would die of embarrassment if we were ever to have the conversation, so I never followed up on the offer and, mercifully, neither did Dad.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“I'm not sweet. Please don't mistake any part of me for soft or kind. That will only get your hurt, and whatever you do...' He buries his face in my neck, inhaling deeply. 'Don't fall for me.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I'm not taken and you needn't worry yourself about sharing me because I'm not asking you to.”
Source: Touched
“I'm not taken and you needn't worry yourself about sharing me because I'm not asking you to. -Aria Cason”
Source: Touched
“I'm not taking you to heaven,' he muttered as he hauled her farther away from the well.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“I'm not talented at all. It's just that I spend more time thinking about art than others.”
“I'm not talking about dislike. If you stand for anything at all, there will be people who dislike you," she said impatiently. "I chose the word hate because I meant it.”
Source: A Christmas Gathering
“I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney”
Source: The Martian
“I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them?”
Source: A Fistful of Charms
“I'm not talking about the scars that separate your skin, Parker. I'm not blind, I can see those. I'm talking about the scars much deeper than that. The scars that exist within you. The ones you actually try to hide.”
Source: Ten Below Zero
“I’m not telling Mira shit.” Cat shakes her head. “It’s like arguing with Syrena.”
Source: Onyx Storm
“I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.”
“I’m not thankful for being fucked over, I’m thankful for what I took from it. What I learned. What I taught myself in that particular moment. I'm grateful someone was able to take me there and let me be in that moment - not with them, but with myself. How my emotions could surrender to someone and make me feel everything I felt. It destroyed me, but I made my way through; and I look back years from, and I still love him, I do.”
“I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.”
Source: Just Pretending
“I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.”
Source: Apprentice
“I'm not that woman that you usually see among the crowd.
I'm another woman who lives alone between the walls of her room
-- as simple as a white handkerchief --
Without lipstick nor a bra...”
“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”
“I'm not the author of your fate, just the editor.”
Source: Calvin in Quarantine
“I'm not the best friend she found eight years ago. I'm the stranger she'll wish she'd never met.”
Source: Untimed
“I'm not the cool kids. Cool kids never speak up, they are too busy with being cool. Speaking up is for the real gangstas.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“I'm not the friend that's gonna just agree with you because we're friends. If you're wrong, you're wrong. So be mad, I'll fucking talk to you later.”
“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
Source: The Hawthorne Legacy
“I’m not the Heart Queen.” Yet.”
Source: Rule of the Aurora King
“I'm not the kind of faggot who wants to put a rainbow sticker on a machine gun.”
“I’m not the kind of girl who ends up with the good guy. I’m the crime boss’s daughter.”
Source: Her Enemy Protector
“I’m not the kind of girl who spends hours getting ready. I don’t blow dry my hair. And I hate make up. I’m not pretty. And I don’t want to be. I am passionate and restless and wild. I’m exhausted by prudent ideologies. I’m not inferior because of my lack of convention. I’m as strong as I am broken. I’m tired of having my sexuality mistaken for an invitation. I will sweat and I will run. I will let the rain come down on me. I want to feel life as I am. I don’t want to skate through having my immoderation controlled by weak judgements. By fear.
I don’t want to be who I’m supposed to be, I want to be who I am.”
“I’m not the kind of man to bottle up my feelings, Kells. I don’t sit up in my room pining away, writing love poems. I’m not a dreamer. I’m a fighter. I’m a man of action, and it will take all of my self-control not to fight for this. When something needs to be done, I do it. When I feel something, I act on it. I don’t see any reason why Ren deserves to get the girl of his dreams and I don’t. It doesn’t seem fair that this happens to me twice.”
“I'm not the kind of person who wants to just melt into the background and be one of many.”
Source: Love Among Reptiles