I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.”
Source: Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
“I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.”
“I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.”
“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”
Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel
“I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.”
“I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.”
Source: Going Down in Flames
“I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out." Cathy”
Source: DNA
“I threatened to kung fu you. Oh my God.”
Source: Instant Attraction
“I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.”
“I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.”
“I threw a lot more curveballs in college and the minor leagues. Up here, they're looking for that pitch. A curveball is more recognizable out of the hand than a fastball or changeup. They're taking them or hitting the mistakes I make with them. I don't want it to be so recognizable. I'll have to work with that because that was my pitch.”
“I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.”
“I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.”
Source: Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years
“I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!”
“I threw all my clothes away from high school.”
“I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.”
“I threw all the unwanted feelings
Into the jail you built over the years,
Out of my mind.
And when the time came to forget everything,
My heart laid to rest every sentence,
While my head revolted —
For there was no key to freedom.”
Source: Where the Quiet Blooms
“I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.”
“I threw both my phones in, one after the other. The splashing sounds they made in the dark were like two trout rising for stoneflies. Trout that sleep in the eddies behind round river boulders. Trout that wake up at dawn and hide all day by pretending to be shadows.”
Source: Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
“I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.”
Source: Loved
“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.”
“I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.”
“I threw my hands in the air and said show me something.
He said, "if you dare come a little closer".”
“I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.”
“I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.”
“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I threw on a pair of leggings - not my threadbare ones - and a Thor shirt. The shirt would remind both me and Logan that he was not actually the hottest guy in the world.”
Source: A Man Worth Shaving For
“I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.”
Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
“I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.”
“I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body.”
“I threw tantrums, I acted stubborn, I was a pain sometimes, but I was still loved. In fact, I was their perfect even in my imperfection.”
Source: Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
“I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"”
“I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.”
“i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.”
“I thrive most when I have to juggle things.”
“I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.”
“I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.”
“I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.”
Source: The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul
“I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.”
“I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.”
Source: Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews
“I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.”
“I thrived on his fire
He lived for my madness
My dirty kisses
We were undying fervor
Dancing volcanoes erupting in lust
Love and all things in between
Together, we moved mountains
Together, we were invincible”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“I throw 70 miles an hour. That’s throwing like a girl.”
“I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.”
“I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.”
Source: Songs of the Sierras
“I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.”