I Quotes
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“I stand up to people.”
“I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.”
Source: THE
“I stand upon a windswept ridge,
listening to the murmurs of the wind.
I waver and merge with the light and shadows,
becoming one with everything surrounding me.”
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
“I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.”
“I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.”
“I stand with my creativity; fear can crawl with the worms.”
“I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.”
“I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?”
“I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist
The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid
I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot
I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit”
“I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.”
“I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.”
Source: Do Not Disturb
“I stare at Diane's smile. I would die for that, though I barely understand why.”
Source: Fathom
“I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?”
“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”
“I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.”
“I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.”
“I stare at him and the way his clothes make his face look paler and his eyes two shades darker than when I last saw him. He doesn't seem real. How can a boy look so magical and interesting, yet utterly terrifying at the same time?”
Source: Sorrow Woods
“I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.”
“I stare at him for a few more minutes, my heart expanding with love for him.
We'll be OK,' I whisper, letting the night capture my wish. We're owed that at least. A life of not scanning rooftops, of not being relieved the ceiling didn't cave in on us during the night.
He and I are owed a love story that doesn't end in tragedy.”
Source: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
“I stare at him from across the table, drinking in the sight of that faint smile. He has spent far too little time smiling in his life. He deserves a life full of joy. A life full of adventure and freedom. Full of love. And by his god and mine, I will make sure he gets it. I will make sure he gets everything. That we get fucking everything.”
Source: Realm of Wind and Vines
“I stare at him.
"My good sister, you should not be walking alone."
I stare and stare and stare. Does he not know every woman in the world is alone, has always been alone, will always be alone. Does he not know, we expect it to be no other way?”
Source: Kiss Her Goodbye
“I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.”
“I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.”
“I stare at my freakish eyeball, gaze into the distorted pupil until it expands and fills the mirror, fills my brain and I’m rushing through vacuum. Wide awake and so far at such speed I flatten into a subatomic contrail. That grand cosmic maw, that eater of galaxies, possesses sufficient gravitational force to rend the fabric of space and time, to obliterate reality, and in I go, bursting into trillions of minute particles, quadrillions of whining fleas, consumed. Nanoseconds later, I understand everything there is to understand. Reduced to my “essential saltes” as it were, I’m the prime mover seed that gets sown after the heat death of the universe when the Ouroboros swallows itself and the cycle begins anew with a big bang.”
Source: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
“I stare at my hands and remember my dad's and how I trusted them when I was a kid until I learned that they could turn into fists. And words could hurt even more than the bruises.”
Source: Liam for Hire
“I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.”
“I stare at sea and contemplate
whether God is with me here or
busy orchestrating tides or
neither here nor there or missing.”
Source: Propelled into Wonder: Poems of a Priest
“I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“I stare at the stars... And even though there are so many and they look so close together, I know they are light years apart. The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning.
This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.”
Source: Across the Universe
“I stare at the woman in question and wonder what happened to the concept of sisterhood. If women stopped doing this kind of thing to other women, there would be a lot less pain in this world. Men, I'll admit, are probably a lost cause, but we could stop cheating on other women with their husbands, boyfriends, fiancés. Jo props herself up on her elbows and gives me a defiant look which, frankly, I'd like to wipe off her face---preferably with a cricket bat. "Who'd have thought that I'd be seeing so much of you," I say. "And so soon."
Marcus's breakfast dish looks rather rattled.
"I can explain," Marcus says as he tries to dismount from the table with some dignity. Difficult to pull off.
"I'm all ears."
"This was the last time," he says earnestly. There are raspberries crushed on his knees. "The last time ever. I was having one last fling before settling down. As soon as you moved in, I was going to be completely and utterly faithful."
Jo doesn't look as if she knows about this particular part of the arrangement and she glares darkly at my fiancé. Perhaps she'll be sneaking into his flat and filling his clothes and his shoes with leftovers and leaving stinking prawns in his soft furnishings. Because, for sure, I won't be troubling myself to do it again.
"You called to tell me you love me while she was here?"
Jo clearly doesn't know about that bit either. Marcus chews his lip.
I stare at Marcus as if I'm seeing him for the first time. He looks ridiculous---yogurt on his knob, smears of berry juice all over his chest and legs, breakfast cereal in his hair. I burst out laughing. Marcus laughs too---nervously.
"Oh, Marcus," I say, clutching at my sides. "I can't believe you've done this again." I double over and belly laugh right the way up from my boots.
"I love you," he says bleakly, and then he continues to laugh along with me, although it sounds forced.
When I finally wrest control of my voice once more, I say softly, "I'm not laughing with you, Marcus. I'm laughing at you."
Slipping my engagement ring from my finger, I put it delicately into the bowl of yogurt that's lying by Jo's feet. Then, picking it up, I tip the bowl upside down on Marcus's head. Yogurt drips slowly down his face. He licks it from his lips. Perhaps he can get Jo to do it for him when I'm gone. "This really is the very last time you do this to me, Marcus.”
Source: The Chocolate Lovers' Club
“I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
“I stare out at the desert, a speck of nothing against its vastness. These rocks, this dirt, it will abide for millennia, while I am but a moment in time that will be over all too soon. The thought is crushing, and I cannot breathe.”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“I stare out at the real world projected on the windows”
Source: The Human Script
“I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
“I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the caption "it could be worse!"
"Just tell me whatever it is you're thinking," Mrs. Paulsen says. "Whatever is going through your mind right now."
"I hope they didn't actually drop a cat in the toilet to get that picture," I choke out.
"...Pardon?"
"Nothing. Sorry.”
Source: The World Without Us
“I stare through the bare trees to the black sky pricked with stars like shards of glass over velvet.”
Source: And It All Came Tumbling Down
“I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.”
“I stared around us. Christmas parcels were piled in every corner, pushed under tables among tired shoppers' feet. Above the steam from the teapots and the waft of the fresh buns there was a sharp scent of pine from the boughs hung up in the corners of the room—it was all wonderfully festive, and I loved it.”
Source: Mistletoe and Murder
“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“I stared at her. "But she drugged us."
"That is no longer news, dumbass. Are you going to ask why she drugged you?"
"Allright," I said, narrowing my eyes. "Why?"
"Because, dear October, you're the most passively suicidal person I've ever met, and that's saying something. You'll never open your wrists, but you'll run headfirst into hell. You'll have good reasons. You'll have great reasons, even. And a part of you will be praying that you won't come out again.”
Source: An Artificial Night
“I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.”
Source: I Am Not A Serial Killer
“I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins.”
“I stared at her, thinking about all the times that would come up over the years ahead where she would think we’d move faster without her. Have more fun without her. Get to enjoy the full extent of an adventure without her.
Have more freedom without her hanging on.
I wasn’t living like that. I wouldn’t let her live like that.”
Source: Kill Switch
“I stared at her, trying to decide if her smile could be called ghastly (I thought it could), or if she really was amused by her story.”
Source: In the Cut
“I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.”
“I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph-”
“I stared at him, and in that moment, I realized something painfully mundane yet profoundly important: if a man ever tells you he’ll never hurt you again after hurting you, he will. Again and again.”
Source: To Hell With You