I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line.”
Source: Love Warrior
“I'm trying to study," he said.
"That won't help you in life," Natasha said, with weary finality. "You should stand up, put your pricey jacket on and walk the streets.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I’m trying to teach you this mysterious skill, one that you seem to lack. It’s called how to say goodbye.” I smiled and rubbed the back of my neck. “What are you grinning at?” she said. “I never want to,” I said. “What? Never want to what?” “I never want to learn how to say goodbye.”
Source: Night Owl
“I'm trying to tell
MiSSSisss WaSShington
about our ceremony for Father.
But it takes time to
match every noun and verb,
sort all the tenses,
remember all the articles,
set the tone for every s.
MiSSSisss WaSShington says
if every learner waits
to speak perfectly,
no one would learn
a new language.
Being stubborn
won't make you fluent.
Practicing will!
The more mistakes you make,
the more you'll learn not to.
They laugh.”
“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
“I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin; and I’m turned off by those who are uncomfortable in their own shoes.”
“I'm turning my back on Vaughn and Knight without saying goodbye because I know they won't let me go. They'll promise to protect me and fight my battles at school, and a part of me still wants that to happen.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“I'm turning off; rebelling against rebellion.”
“I'm twelve years old and I'm an invalid. The mailman brings two pension checks to our house - for me and my grandad. When the girls in my class found out that I had cancer of the blood, they were afraid to sit next to me. They didn't want to touch me.
The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I’m the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all.”
Source: The Big O
“I’m twenty-four years old, Gideon,” I said dryly. “I stopped developing years ago. What you see is what you get.”
“Yes, but I’m the only one who’s supposed to be seeing, since I’m the only one who’s allowed to be getting.”
Source: Bared to You
“I'm twenty-four years old. I always thought I was done growing up. But being with Rose has made me grow into the version of myself that I love the most.”
“I'm twenty-nine, happily single and getting it on a regular basis' I said, enjoying the way their thin lips hung open in an impressive O.
'Well I've never,' Jane gasped.
'Clearly. You should try it some time. I understand Mr Smith is so vision impaired you might have a shot there.'
Their appalled shrieks were music to my ears and I quickly made my escape.”
Source: Fashionably Dead
“I'm twenty-two and a woman.
One of the ways men diminish women's status and our contribution whilst simultaneously entrenching their quasi-paternal male authority is to call us girls. Girls go to school, Captain. Women tend the wounded, make the shells and drive the ambulances.”
Source: The First Casualty
“I'm twenty years old,' said Laurent, 'and I've been the recipient of offers almost as long as I can remember.'
'Is that an answer?' said Damen.
'I'm not a virgin,' said Laurent.
'I wondered,' Damen said, carefully, 'if you reserved your love for women.'
'No, I--' Laurent sounded surprised. Then he seemed to realise that his surprise gave something fundamental away, and he looked away with a muttered breath; when he looked back at Damen there was a wry smile on his lips, but he said, steadily, 'No.'
'Have I said something to offend you? I didn't mean--'
'No. A plausible, benign and uncomplicated theory. Trust you to come up with it.'
'It's not my fault that no one in your country can think in a straight line,' said Damen, frowning a touch defensively.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“I'm two days away
from day after tomorrow
Counting the hours
to my upcoming sorrow
Suddenly I look
into the eyes of my child
Then all sadness gone
as I smile the way she smiled”
“I m two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“I'm Ukrainian, actually. And I'm making my signature dish," he said slowly, meeting Ibáñez's stare. "More shocking than Rocky Mountain oysters." He nodded to Volière. "Rarer than ortolan. Maybe just as taboo, though." He turned to Katsuki. "And it does more than just dance around death. It reverses it."
There was silence in the kitchen as they waited for the punch line, anxious to learn if the things they'd heard through the grapevine were true.
"Well?" Volière prompted. "Qu'est-ce que c'est?"
"I don't know." Kostya shrugged. "The Dead haven't fed it to me yet.”
Source: Aftertaste
“I'm...um...I've got guests in my studio. I don't know how they undid my secure barricade made of cardboard signs that said KEEP OUT! and SECRET ROOM! in all caps with an exclamation point, but it's my program director, Lauren, and some man I've never seen bef - but no, I have seen him before.”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“I'm unable to tell you what it feels like to be "a little" mad. My emotions work as if controlled by a light switch. I'm either fine or I'm out of control. I once spilled a container of thumbtacks and got as angry at myself as I did when I screwed up my relationship with my high school sweetheart. If I'm under the impression that there are Golden Grahams in my cupboard, then realize that there in fact are none, there's a high probability I'll be as sad as I was at my grandfather's funeral.
In other words, my reactions aren't in proportion to the things I'm reacting to. It's something I've been working on with a very lovely shrink for the past few years.
But against the 4Skins one day, all that hard word went out the window.”
Source: A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
“I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.”
Source: Eggshells
“I’m undeniable… Not by accident. Not by popularity. But by divine appointment.
I’m not just a good idea—I’m a God answer.
Where there was silence, I became the sound.
Where there was longing, I became the laughter.
Where there was waiting, I became the witness.
I am the evidence of prayers whispered in midnight hours.
I am the overflow of faith that refused to quit.
I am the affirmation that heaven heard.
I am the answered prayer. I am somebody and you can’t make me think differently.
Let’s GO!”
“I’m understanding when I’m on my grey phone. But once it turns yellow, I have to change my time zone!
Poem - CR7.
December 6, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.”
“I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war. But somehow Hana has fallen cleanly away into the double half, the other world, the world of unmentionable thoughts and things and people.
Is it possible that all this time I’ve been living my life, studying for tests, taking long runs with Hana—and this other world has just existed, running alongside and underneath mine, alive, ready to sneak out of the shadows and the alleyways as soon as the sun goes down? Illegal parties, unapproved music, people touching one another with no fear of the disease, with no fear for themselves.
A world without fear. Impossible.
And even though I’m standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.”
“I'm used to being stared at, but this is different. He's not really looking at my face. It's like he's watching the air around me, the breath filling my lungs, and possibly even the thoughts swirling in my head. Like he sees me, really sees me, and maybe he sees through me a bit, too.”
Source: Scions
“I'm used to crazy bitter women making threats. They complain incessantly that my fashion magazines exploit women. Then on the other hand they complain that the alleged exploitation isn't spread around equally among the fat ones and the ethnic ones. I gave up listening to them years ago.”
Source: Dietland
“I'm used to functioning in pain, asshole. Are you?”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I'm used to loving you now. Having you near me, meeting you ten times a day has become a spiritual necessity.”
Source: The Black Monk
“I'm used to lying to grown-ups. It's a habit I got into. It simplifies things.”
Source: Beads, Boys and Bangles
“I'm used to people thinking I'm an asshole," he says stiffly. "Less used to them describing my eyes as 'amber'."
"That's what color they are," I say. "It's objective. I'm not complimenting you."
"In that case, I'll abstain from being flattered. What color are yours?" He leans in without any hint of embarrassment, only curiosity, his warm breath feathering over my jaw. That is pretty much when I realize I think he's hot.
I mean, I know I thought he was hot in Mug + Shot when I thought he was someone else, but this is when I realize I think he - specifically Charlie Lastra, not just someone who looks like him - is hot.”
Source: Book Lovers
“I'm used to watching for people with swords," I told him. "I never saw the knife. You were too close.”
Source: Magic Rises
“I'm usually better at protecting myself from this kind of thing."
"From heartbreak?"
"Yeah." My throat is closing. "I can usually get out of the way before it hits me straight on."
"That's not really heartbreak then, is it?”
Source: Writers & Lovers
“I'm vast enough to contain the world, asylum pills don't work on pilgrim brains.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I’m vegan for animals because they deserve to live in peace just like we do.”
“I'm Vegetarian or Vegan, Not because of my Caste but it's because of my Choice..!!
No animal abuse..!!”
“I’m very comfortable being right,” she admitted.
“We all are. But sometimes it’s a lonely place.”
Source: Sweet Trouble
“I'm very curious where can it put you life without to have a target. It's like to push something which doesn't do anything, but what happens??
If I push something to much times it brokes, but what happen with the humanity without a target?”
“I'm very cute, you know. And I'm not sure you've heard, but I have five thousand pounds a year. I've taken a place in Boulder for the season. Miss Dashwood and her sister will vouch for my parentage.”
Source: All the Feels
“I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.”
“I’m very familiar with how Fia fights.” I smirk. “I’m so glad one of us kicked your butt.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“I'm very glad to crawl into my flea-bag and go to sleep.”
Source: Come, Tell Me How You Live
“I'm very good at arranging hair," the maid said firmly. "And Lady Westcliff told me to use her very own pearl hairpins for you. Now, if you'll sit at the dressing table, miss...?"
Touched by Lillian's generosity in sending her own maid, Hannah complied. It took an eternity to curl her hair with hot tongs, and arrange it in pinned-up curls, with gleaming white pearls scattered amid the dark locks of her hair. The maid helped her into the white ballgown, and gave her a pair of silver-embroidered silk stockings from Evie. After fastening a pearl necklace from Annabelle Hunt around Hannah's neck, the maid helped her to tug on a pair of long white satin gloves from Daisy Swift. The wallflowers, Hannah thought with a grateful smile, were her own group of fairy godmothers.”
Source: A Wallflower Christmas
“I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.”
Source: Lord of Light
“I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.”
Source: Lord of Light
“I'm very happy that you did not marry Leighton or Tommy or any of the woefully lacking others, Sixpence."
No one but Michael had ever called her Sixpence, a silly nickname he'd given her a lifetime ago, assuring her that she was worth far more than a penny to him.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“I’m very happy to see you this morning. It is another chance for me to live and keep focusing on my journey. As long as I’m still alive every brand new day, I will always pursue my destiny to come to reality.”
“i'm very hard to catch, and if they can't catch me they can't kill me so don't count me out.”
Source: L’Embrasement
“I'm very independent, but I didn't realize how much my mom was my center of gravity until she died. She had such a large presence in life; it's no wonder why her absence left such a large void. I had to learn to become my own center once she was gone.”
Source: Healing After the Loss of Your Mother: A Grief & Comfort Manual
“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”
Source: Between Lives: An Artist and Her World