I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.”
“I thought it was just him,” she says, ignoring him. “But then I found out I had the same effect, which means the Society did something to my head too.”
Gage’s eyes close, horror washing over him. “You really do love him.”
“Yes. No. I don’t know.” Her cries start up again, piercing his heart. “Gage, help me.”
“I love you,” he says, holding her closer. “That’s real.”
Source: Burning Falls
“I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.”
“I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.”
“I thought it was my fault. That I wasn’t worth the effort? Or maybe it was just normal to feel lonely, even when you were with someone.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.”
“I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.”
“I thought it was odd no one mentioned Lucy, other than a few folks saying horrible things like Alex dodged a bullet and it was too bad they didn't get any cake."
My eyes went wide.
"I know. She didn't make the best impression in the year she lived here. I mean, surely there are those that must've liked her. You know me, I don't like to talk bad about anyone, and I think it's dreadful what happened to the girl. On her wedding day, no less. But she could've done well to take a lesson in manners and etiquette. To be so pretty, some ugly things came out of her mouth. And you know what mama used to say."
"'Ugly words shouldn't come out of pretty mouths. No matter how much paint you put on the barn, the ugly taints the whole structure,'" we said in unison.”
Source: Southern Sass and a Battered Bride
“I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.”
“I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.”
“I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.”
“I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.”
“I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“I thought it was really weird when my girlfriend broke up with me because she was changing gender! I later realized she was working a toxic job.”
“I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest.”
“I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.”
“I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don’t think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it’s lonely, and I don’t want to be lonely. I don’t want to be alone.”
Source: Crazy
“I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.”
“I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.”
“I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.”
“I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.”
Source: Graceling
“I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.”
“I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.”
“I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.”
“I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.”
“I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.”
“I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.”
“Just ask anyone who came in second place if that is true.”
Source: An Evil Trade
“I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].”
“I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.”
“I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before.”
“I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.”
“I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.”
“I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies”
Source: the bell jar
“I thought it would be easy to cast a Bond girl, because there are so many beautiful women in this world. But not many of them can act. Their acting needed to be really strong and three-dimensional. Historically, the role of women in the world has changed. You can't have someone in a Bond film just as a sex object.”
“I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.”
“I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.”
“I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.”
“I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.”
“I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.”
“I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.”
“I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.”
“I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.”
Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim
“I thought it would be quieter here.” [Anna] hadn’t meant to say anything, but the noise startled her.
“The wind in the trees,” Bran said. “And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.”
Source: Cry Wolf
“I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.”
“I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.”
Source: Life After God
“I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.”
“I thought it would be weird having sex with short hair but then I kind of got into the mode.”
“I thought it would feel empowering to just sleep with whomever I wanted to, but I wasn’t built that way. I just wasn’t honest enough with myself to know that at the time.”
Source: The Sugar Baby Club