I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.”
Source: Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
“I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.”
“I tried to play by the rules, but no! They wouldn't let me go straight! Society is to blame!”
“I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.”
“I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.”
“I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.”
“I tried to pull him into my world, instead I was pulled into the darkness of his.”
Source: Dead Dog Road
“I tried to push down my anger. One thing I hated more than Daemon's douche-nozzle side was him telling me what to do. "You don't own me, Daemon."
"It's not about ownership, you little nut."
"Nut?" I glared at him. "I wouldn't call me names when I have a knife in my hand.”
Source: Onyx
“I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.”
“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”
“I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!”
Source: William Carlos Williams
“I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.”
“I tried to put myself up for adoption several times.”
“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.”
“I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.”
“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.”
“I tried to read the menu, but I kept getting distracted. The aromas from the kitchen filled the room- melting butter, grilling meat, soft and sharp spices. All of them better than any of the restaurant smells I'd had to pass by during my time in the city. My mouth was watering, and my nose was so focused that I could barely skim the first few items.
Sablefish with miso glaze
Duck, dry-aged and served with pureed butternut squash
Wagyu New York strip
I had no idea what these things were, except for duck, which I couldn't help but feel sorry for. Dry-aged sounded like an especially bad death for a waterfowl.
The waiter returned. "Shall I order for us?" Victoria asked. I nodded, grateful. "Anything you don't eat? Allergies?"
I shook my head. Nobody had ever asked me that before. On the island, I'd eaten what I gathered. At the cove, I ate what came to the table. Now I'd eat anything that didn't involve the jar in my backpack.
"We'll start with the clam chowder," Victoria said. "We can order more later." The waiter nodded respectfully and disappeared again. "They make it with fresh clams," she told me. "It's exceptional."
A young woman with a fancy braid in her hair brought us a basket of French bread, still warm from the oven. I watched as Victoria spread one slice with butter that melted as she applied it, releasing the faintest scent of flowers.
"Here," she said, handing it to me. The crust gave way under my teeth with a delicate crunch, the butter soft on my tongue. It tasted even better than it smelled. After almost two weeks of hard mattresses and strangers and failure, I wanted to crawl inside the comfort of this bread and stay there forever.”
Source: The Scent Keeper
“I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.”
“I tried to remember what my life had been like in that unfathomably distant era that was four weeks ago, or imagine what it might be like four weeks from now—but I couldn’t. Eventually we ran out of nothing to talk about, and I excused myself and went upstairs to be alone.”
“I tried to remind myself that journalists were like tyrannosauruses. Their vision was based on movement.”
Source: Boyfriend Material
“I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.”
“I tried to see that every picture was better-looking than the person.”
Source: The world of James Van DerZee: a visual record of Black Americans
“I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with." "So of course you immediately came down.”
“I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I handed him in his mouth. He would try to eat anything. I fed him Tabasco sauce and he yelled. Having a little brother helped me learn to relate to other people. Being a little brother, Snort learned to watch what he put in his mouth.”
Source: Look Me in the Eye
“I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.”
“I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.”
Source: Second Chance Summer
“I tried to smile, like I wasn't about to die.
''Hey, Big Fella,'' I called up. ''I bet they don't play with you much.''
''GROWWWLLLL''
''Good boy,'' I said weakly.”
Source: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
“I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series
“I tried to sound confident and strong, but there are some lies that the body just won't believe, and the words came out as a squeak.”
Source: Shantaram
“I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.”
Source: the bell jar
“I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.”
“I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.”
“I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There’s a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band.”
“I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.”
“I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.”
“I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.”
“I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself”
“I tried to swallow again, but my throat was dry enough to be splintered apart and used for kindling”
Source: The Astonishing Color of After
“I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.”
“I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road college. It's like a segue into adulthood, like living on your own for the first time.”
“I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new to me so I had to use my fascination, and the fact that I'm almost a teenage filmmaker, to my advantage. And that's why I don't pretend to have made a good movie... but one that people are able to feel the love I have for this industry.”
“I tried to take every little thing and use it as an advantage. People were asking me how it felt to be in the UFC, and I wasn’t thinking about that. All that mattered was Alessio Sakara. I had to win that fight. Even now I still haven’t got time to sit back. Again, this is a must win, must dominate, fight for me in my eyes, and I won’t be happy unless that’s the way it goes.”
“I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.”
“I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.”
“I tried to take some of the same records that were important to me on my album Full Speed that my fans really vibed with content-wise and just made sure that the production and actual sound was put together differently and wasn't rushed as much.”
“I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.”
“I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
“I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.”