I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I thought, if we could just come together as a community, even if that just meant playing soccer together, that could be the beginning of something good. Coming together as a community, as a people, creates more power than exists when individuals are fighting each other for scraps. Soccer has always brought people together. Soccer was where I would begin.”
Source: Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
“I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.”
“I thought if you wore that, no matter what face you saw every morning in the mirror," he said in his deep voice, "you'll never forget who you really are."
My eyes filling with tear, I held my hand out across the tabletop. He grasped my fingers, his grip strong and reassuring.
"As if I ever could," I said, my voice clogged with emotion, "with you around to remind me.”
Source: Teen Idol: A Young Adult Novel of High School Secrets, Hollywood Stars, and Tabloid Chaos
“I thought imaginary meant unseen so this imaginary friend could be anywhere. People who had them heard them speak but no one else could hear them. I wanted one and tried to conjure one in different ways but none came. Finally I just lied about having one. Which meant I had an imaginary imaginary friend.”
Source: What It Is
“I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.”
“I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.”
“I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty”
“I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.”
Source: Liar's Poker
“I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.”
“I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.”
“I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.”
Source: The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956
“I thought it could be something, I mean, eventually." Harrison finally looks at us. "My life I thought-but I mean... it's nothing."
"Don't cry" Grace says. "You have a lot of time."
"No, I don't."
"Yeah, you do."
"No.-"
"Yeah! Yeah, you do. It's okay. Look-"
She does something that is so amazingly selfless and also gross. She tilts Harrison's face up and gives him a sweet kiss on the lips and it lasts long enough for him to taste her back, to move his mouth against hers.
Harrison stares at her dumbfounded but he's stopped crying
She is so nice.”
Source: This Is Not a Test
“I thought it'd be gratifying for a Davies to call me a monster, even in a roundabout way. But it's not. Monsters don't get to be innocent. Monsters don't get to beg for mercy. They don't deserve it.”
Source: Compound Fracture
“I thought it made her happy to help out. You know, the way some people claim to like picking up litter or helping the homeless or standing outside supermarkets trying to get me to sign petitions.”
Source: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read
“I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.”
“I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.”
“I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.”
“I thought it might make him despair of life, but he has despaired anyway.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.”
“I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.”
“I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.”
Source: Every Which Way But Dead
“I thought it out this very day,
Noon upon the clock,
A man may put pretence away
Who leans upon a stick,
May sing, and sing until he drop,
Whether to maid or hag.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.”
“I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.”
“I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”
Source: the bell jar
“I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.”
“I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…
“I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.”
“I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.”
“I thought it was a miraculous birth, but they said Jesus was a begotten son. Which means the process of reproduction was involved. He was truly the son of man, according to the scripture.”
“I thought it was a novel.”
“It is.”
“What’s it about??”
“You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.”
“This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble,” I said.
“Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.”
“I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.”
“I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.'
'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.”
Source: The Wild Girls
“I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how to be in wise relationship to life, certain health consequences are bound to happen. If you stand up 12 hours a day on an assembly line, or constantly tell yourself life is not worth living, the body will respond in certain somewhat predictable ways.”
“I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.”
“I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!”
“I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”
“I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.”
“I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.”
“I thought, it was all so creepy until I found you.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.”
“I thought it was another avalanche. This morning it was terrible."
"What was?" asked Sniff.
"The avalanche, of course," answered the Hemulen. "Quite terrible! Rocks the size of houses bouncing about like hail-stones! My best glass jar was broken, and I myself had to move quite quickly to get out of the way."
"I'm afraid we happened to knock a few stones down as we were passing," said Snufkin. "It's so easily done walking on these tracks."
"Do you mean to say it was you who made the avalanche?" said the Hemulen.
"Well -- yes -- sort of," Snufkin answered.
"I never thought very much of you," said the Hemulen slowly, "and now I think even less.”
Source: Comet in Moominland
“I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.”
“I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.”
“I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.”
“I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.”
“I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things: A Novel
“I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.”
“I thought it was interesting to see that Israel did not play a role in this revolution. The man on Cairo's Tahrir Square doesn't want anything from me, but he does want something from his government. That's a good sign.”
“I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.”