I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.”
“I'm taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn't.”
Source: River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
“I’m taking a shower.”
Oh, God. She was killing him. Making him want to laugh out loud. Where had his sense of self-preservation gone? He didn’t feel emotion— that was far too dangerous. He shivered beneath the blankets, suddenly afraid for her. For himself.
“You’re still cold. I should have thought to rub you down with some warm oil. Lexi makes it and I use it sometimes when I come in from a dive. It warms you up fast. Can you roll over, because I’m not rubbing your front.”
“Why not?”
“If you want a massage, turn over.”
Source: Water Bound
“I'm taking a trouble for you I never dreamed I should take for any human creature.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I'm talking about how to stay in one piece. Try to get hold of the things that are important, the good and true things about your life. Up there is some kind of lovely. And maybe you need to have something in your heart, you know, something even more lovely. To help you find your way home. Otherwise maybe you could be beguiled." (Spoken by character Alan Bean)”
Source: Cosmic
“I’m talking about the language of flowers. It’s from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.”
Source: The Language of Flowers
“I’m talking mashed potatoes. Roast potatoes. Sweet potatoes. Potato casserole. Those thinly sliced potatoes with that cheese sauce on them. Potato salad, even.”
“Jimmy?” Dallas says with a startlingly sweet smile. “Yeah?”
“Shut the hell up about potatoes.”
“But they’re the best part of Thanksgiving dinner! Everyone knows that.”
“It’s my Irish blood, makes me love the things. Can’t get enough of ‘em.”
“Binge-watching Collin Farrell movies while youeat Lucky Charms doesn’t make you Irish, dumbass,” he grouches.
“I dress up for St. Patrick’s day, too,” Triple J responds, defensive.
I swivel from where I’m removing my shin guards to peer at him. “What the hell do you dress up as for St. Patrick’s day?”
He shakes his head at me like I’m incredibly stupid for asking this. “A leprechaun, of course.”
Dallas grins. “Surely you don’t even need a costume for that one.”
Source: Season's Schemings
“I'm talking to a guy who says he was taken up in a flying saucer and had sexual experiments done on him - which, I got to say, is probably the only sexual experiments he's ever had done on him, that didn't involve a heifer.”
“I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?”
Source: My Beating Teenage Heart
“I’m talking to the only one who’ll listen
About the lonely nights and all that I’m missin
Haven’t seen you lately but I heard your doin fine
I’m In between two places
Where my words didn’t come to you in time”
Source: February Rain: Lyrics of a Lonely Traveler
“I'm taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid."
"I meant in feet," she clarified. Speaking of the mundane gave her a measure of calm.
He eyed his boots a moment and appeared to be doing some rapid calculations.”
Source: Kiss of the Highlander
“I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light.”
Source: What You Wish For
“I’m telling you that my happiness isn’t up to you.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“I’m telling you that responsibly applying time strategy and proactively leveraging your calendar is the dumb ol’ secret to seeing your dreams come true.”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“I’m telling you the government is up to some wicked stuff. Of course, they’ve been at it for over a century now, so…”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“I'm telling you this because I want you to grasp the nuances of Persian hospitality. Whether entering or leaving, all guests must be accorded the honor and dignity of monarchs, because they are.”
Source: Persianality
“I'm telling you, you really should stick to mating within your species, whatever that is.'
'I would,' I said, 'but unfortunately, there are no gorgeous, all-powerful, all-knowing gods around here. I'd even settle for a demigod. It's a step down, I know. But alas, there are nothing but low-brained mortals here. And half-brains, like you.”
Source: A Match Made in High School
“I'm terribly in love with you. But please don't worry about it.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I’m terribly sorry, Fergal.”
“What for? Marrying him? I should think you would be, Angel.”
“I’m terrified of children. I never know what to do with them. You can’t scruff them up like puppies and admire their ears and teeth; and if you talk to them like intelligent human beings they only greet you with most disconcerting stares.”
Source: Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary
“I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close.”
Source: The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
“I’m terrified. There is a gun pointed at my face, and the man who’s aiming it is a convicted killer. But I know he won’t kill me. I know by now that he’ll never do that. That would mean he’d lose his favorite toy, and he likes playing with me too much.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“I'm terrified you're not going to make it to graduation, Vi.' His shoulders slump. 'You know exactly how I feel about you, whether or not I can do anything about it, and I'm terrified.'
It's that last line that does me in. Laughter bubbles up through my throat and escapes.
His eyes widen.
'This place cuts away the bullshit and the niceties, revealing whoever you are at your core.' I repeat his words from this summer. 'Isn't that what you said to me? Is this who you really are at your core? Someone so enamoured with rules that he doesn't know when to bend or break them for someone he cares about? Someone so focused on the least I'm capable of doing, he can't believe I can do so much more?'
The warmth drains from his brown eyes.
'Let's get one thing straight, Dain.' I take a step closer, but the distance between us only widens.' The reason we'll never be anything more than friends isn't because of your rules. It's because you have no faith in me. Even now, when I've survived against all odds and bonded not just one dragon but two, you still think I won't make it. So forgive me, but you're about to be some of the bullshit that this place cuts away from me.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I’m texting your picture, your name, and your address to one of my flatmates. In case I’m letting your beautiful building blind me to the fact you’re actually a serial killer.”
To his credit, he didn’t look at her like she was crazy, just smiled. “I’m a reasonably famous rugby player. I’m on the TV. You can see my half naked ass on a billboard as you drive off the Sydney Harbour Bridge.”
“What, you can’t be a serial killer as well?”
Source: Playing With Forever
“I'm thankful because I'm still alive. I'm thankful because I lived the mantra, Only The Strong Survive. I'm thankful because I have Chris Ann. And that has made all the difference. And it always will.
It always gets better. I told you so...”
Source: Not All Out of Love
“I'm Thankful in the knowledge that Each of us are making choices according to the best light we have. That there is never reason for embarrassment, humiliation, regret. This Life we live is here for us to make mistakes and learn from them and Spiritually grow. Imagining a person that has never made mistakes is like staring at an unworkable stone.”
“I'm thankful it's into your hands I fell.”
Source: Maurice
“I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.”
Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
“I'm thanking God in advance for all that He will give to me tomorrow.”
“I’m that man and I know it. I’m shamelessly all heart. Lover and a fighter. Last of a dying breed. I’m at peace with it. I have pride with it. Because the best thing I can be — is me. I know this, I own this, and I want to help others become the best them. The way is kindness, the way is compassion. To see one for who they are and to see them become all they can be. That is the way. The way is love.”
“I’m that man and I know it. I’m shamelessly all heart. Lover and a fighter. Last of a dying breed. I’m at peace with it. I have pride with it. Because the best thing I can be — is me. I know this, I own this, and I want to help others become the best them. The way is kindness, the way is compassion. To see see one for who they are and to see them become all they can be. That is the way. The way is love.”
“I'm that person everyone replaces after a while.”
“I’m that person. I write about good and bad boys who make my heart sing and cry and scream. I write about things I fear—misogyny, mental illness, and bigotry. I write about the little things I like—shimmery dresses, dogs, ice cream, and radio.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“I'm the Alpha. I get busy and in order for me to be able to court you, one of us has to be available.
She blinked up at him. "You didn't just say that to me."...
"You expect me to be available whenever."
He sat back. The intensity of his gaze had her pinned to the seat. If took all she had to keep eye contact....
"Do you remember who I am?"
"I'm pretty sure some spoiled celebrity is wondering who stole their line right now.”
Source: Full Circle
“I’m the answer to her pain. She’s my answer for the need for it.”
Source: We Were One Once
“I'm the bathroom master
I'm a real bowl blaster
Don't mess with me
'Cause I can mess it up faster
With just one flush
I can make a toilet gush
When my sister cleans it up
I just turn her to mush!”
Source: Stay Out of the Bathroom
“i'm the beast
rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.”
Source: Soft Science
“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
“I’m the Bloodstone Dragon, Armstrong Knight, do not doubt my might.”
Source: Stones of Dracontias: The Bloodstone Dragon
“I'm the body.”
Source: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“I’m the book lady. With the bag. I’ve secured both. The book and the bag.”
“I’m the book lady. With the bag. I’ve secured Botha The book and the bag.”
“I'm the bridge jumping friend parents warned you about.”
Source: Dreaming in the Shadows
“I'm the caring type also. I care aggressively. That's just who I am.”
Source: Quichotte
“I'm the center that the dervish whirls around, I'm the flame that syllables dance around - You think Naskar writes me, Naskar is an idiot, I'm beyond Naskar, beyond every single puny mortal brain, I'm the original sentience that occasionally seeks out fitting vessels, with a dominant tendency of expansion and a tinge of naivety, and makes them whirl at my whim, so that your little toddler species doesn't crawl back into jungle slime.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I'm the cover of a book,
Whose pages are still being written”
“I’m the Deputy Director for Operations.”
“Congratulations. A title so classified you can’t even list it on your resumé when they fire you.”
Source: Russian Holiday
“I’m the devil, and I’m here to do the devil’s business.”
“I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I’m the first to admit I’m not much of a cook. But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it’s one of my better dishes.”
Source: The Hunger Games