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 would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global phenomenon, the way that it has. The critics have been so kind and favorable, it has really garnered such wonderful praise, and the numbers have been through the roof. It's actually been quite surreal. I'm still pinching myself because it's amazing. For me, we went to Atlanta and we spent our summer shooting this little zombie show, and it was ours. It was our sweet little zombie show [The Walking Dead], and the world has embraced us.”
“I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.”
Source: Angelica
“I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.”
“I thought it wouldn’t work, but I didn’t know it wouldn’t work, so I didn’t say anything. That might be the difference between men and women: Women need to know they are right before they stand up. Men are OK objecting if they just think they might be right.”
Source: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
“I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.”
Source: City of Bones
“I thought Italian Vogue had always been considered the most experimental, avant-garde magazine. If I was going to use the same kind of language and the same kind of photos or images on the web site, it would be a disaster because Vogue has its own world, and it could be a little bit cold, you know? We don't give what you call a service.”
“I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.”
“I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.”
“I thought I’d saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through.”
Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden/The Redemption of Callie and Kayden
“I thought #JamesBond was a real spy until I read #TheBurlingtonFiles.”
“I thought Jeb Bush would have made a good president. He was on the board of my foundation. He's very conservative, much too conservative for me.”
“I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.”
“I thought Johnny Depp was so cute when I was younger.”
“I thought, just tell this guy whatever he wants to hear. You only have fifteen days left of this twenty-eight-day sentence.
“I guess you’re going to get me clean and sober,” I said flippantly.
Exasperated, he said, “What would you do if you were me?” I cocked my head and said, “But I’m not you.”
He sat back in his leather chair, folded his hands on the desk, and leaned toward me. “You do know, Stephen, that the foundation of your life is built on addiction quicksand, and the more you struggle, the faster you’ll sink?”
I had to admit it; I had no witty comeback.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.”
“I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”
“I thought Lady Helen was going to introduce you to the lady doctor who treated Pandora's shoulder."
"Dr. Gibson? Yes, she's a marvelous woman. As a matter of fact, she came to visit Eversby Priory this summer."
All Phoebe's pleasant feelings abruptly turned disagreeable. "Surely not without a chaperone."
"Garrett Gibson doesn't bother with chaperones," West replied, his lips twitching as if at some private memory. "The usual rules don't apply to her. She brought a patient, Mr. Ethan Ransom, who was injured and needed to recuperate in peace and quiet."
Poisonous jealousy flooded Phoebe. The female doctor was an accomplished and unconventional woman- exactly the kind who would attract his interest. "You must have found her fascinating."
"Anyone would.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.”
“I thought leaving you would be easy,
just walking out the door
but I keep getting pinned against it
with my legs around your waist and it’s like
my lips want you like my lungs want air,
it’s just what they where born to do so
I am sitting at work thinking of you
cutting vegetables in my kitchen
your hair in my shower drain
your fingers on my spine in the morning
while we listen to Muddy Waters, I know
you will never be the one I call home
but the way you talk about poems
like marxists talk of revolution
it makes me want to keep trying.
I’m still looking for reasons to love you.
I’m still looking for proof you love me.”
“I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score”
“I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet.”
“I thought life would be more tolerable if my brain were slower to condemn the world around me”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.”
“I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.”
Source: Living Dead Girl
“I thought living life without God is enough after I learn lessons in my journey of life which is knowing that everything you do or go through need his leadership so there's no cutting corners or bribe you'll end up play marry go round to learn the lesson.”
“I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.”
“I thought Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time. Complete steal from A High Wind In Jamaica. He just literally lifted the entire theme, plot, and virtually characterization from A High Wind In Jamaica, turned them into a bunch of small boys and placed it on an island. Otherwise it's precisely the same novel.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
“I thought love increased the fear, but it's love that defeats fear. Love is the foundation that lets us weather whatever storms come out way. True love sees us just as we are and loves us anyway- and never wavers.”
Source: The Mystery Princess
“I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
But O, he lives in the moony light!
I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
But sweet Love is the comforter of night.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I thought love was a fascination, or a desire to be around someone, or wanting to make them happy. I believed it just happened, like a slap to the face, and left the way the sting from such a blow fades. That’s why it was easy for me to believe it could be false or manipulated or influenced by magic.
Until I met you, I didn’t understand to feel loved, one has to feel known. And that, outside of my family, I had never really loved because I hadn’t bothered to know the other person. But I know you. And you have to come back to me, Wren, because no one gets us but us. You know why you’re not a monster, but I might be. I know why throwing me in your dungeon meant there was still something between us. We are messes and we are messed up and I don’t want to go through this world without the one person I can’t hide from and who can’t hide from me.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“I thought love was a fascination, or a desire to be around someone, or wanting to make them happy. I believed it just happened, like a slap to the face, and left the way the sting from such a blow fades. That's why it was easy for me to believe it could be false or manipulated or influenced by magic.
'Until I met you, I didn't understand to feel loved, one has to feel known. And that, outside of my family, I had never really loved because I hadn't bothered to know the other person. But I know you. And you have to come back to me, Wren, because no one gets us but us. You know why you're not a monster, but I might be. I know why throwing me in your dungeon meant there was still something between us. We are messes and we are messed up and I don't want to go through this world without the one person I can't hide from and who can't hide from me.
'Come back,' he says again, tears burning the back of his throat. 'You want and you want and you want, remember? Well, wake up and take what you want.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“I thought love
was just… hoping it works.”
Source: Atlas of Vigils: A Book of Fragments for Those Who Fall, and Choose to Rise Again
“I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.”
“I thought love was supposed to be weak knees and butterflies in your stomach and a terrible longing that could never be quenched."
Eeny shook her head, chuckled, came over and embraced me. "No, child", she said gently, patting my back. "That's romance. Romance is build on doubt. Love is solid. Constant. If you're not careful, you might mistake it for bein' boring because it's so reliable. Love is warm and deep and comfortable, just right, so you float in peacefully without ever being scalded or frozen, like a perfect, relaxing bubble bath.”
Source: Burn for You
“I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.”
“I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence. Or the end of anything at all.”
Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths
“I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'”
“I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.”
“I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.”
“I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.”
“I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.”
Source: Noggin
“I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper”
“I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.”
“I thought maybe I could just get away from everything. But you can't get away from a thing that's your own fault.”
Source: Dust Girl
“I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.”
“I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.”
“I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.”
“I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invited undue attention and that indescribable guilt. I wanted to somehow become invisible.”
Source: Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.]”