I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! - Carol”
“I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.”
Source: This Is My Life
“I’ve been through hell, sat with pain, and still showed up with heart. That’s not weakness. That’s what surviving like a fucking warrior looks like.”
Source: Porcelain Utopia
“I've been through so many things in life, and I have come to deduce one thing above all else: I care for nothing in this world save writing, books, everything else is an obstruction; it will always come second.”
Source: The Girl With The Flawless Face
“I've been to great vegan restaurants. Ones where instead of being served simply steamed, the beets were roasted and chopped into a tartare with shiso and toasted hazelnuts and served with fried gnocco dough, crisp, puffed and golden, like a clever tartare. Vegan restaurants where the waterier vegetables like zucchini and yellow squash are treated with even more care: chunks of grilled zucchini surrounded by a vibrant yellow squash purée with chili crunch, lime, and fresh mint, served with fresh-from-the-oven vegan barley bread for ripping and dipping. I've also had amazing vegan desserts. Once, in class, Claire made a chocolate cake layered with a creamy tofu mousse, rhubarb gelée, strawberry sauce, and fudge crunch, using no gross heavy olive oils or coconut cream. It was magnificent!”
Source: Off Menu
“I've been to Mansfield. Maybe one day I'll go back and find myself an Amish woman to marry and we will have enough kids so they can all just pick up my barn and we can move my duck farm to the newest Meme Factory where I'll find work as a caption creator.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“I've been to many beauty salons. No one gave me a certificate.”
Source: The New Land
“I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.”
Source: Jaden Baker
“I’ve been to your house.”
“You have,” Gordo said. “You pissed in my kitchen. You remember?”
Gavin shrugged. “Nope.”
“Really? Because that was a lot of piss that I had to—oh, fuck you, man. You’re yanking my chain, aren’t you.”
Gavin laughed. “Yeah. Yanking your chain. So much piss.”
Source: Brothersong
“I’ve been told by a few people at conferences I have a rather academic approach to the subject matter that makes it easy for people to ask questions. I think some genre writers feel the need to “sell” or defend what they do, and so when a door opens to discuss their genre, regardless of what that genre is, they tend to get almost pushy. I’m comfortable with what I write. It is part of who I am. I don’t really need to sell it. But if I’m asked, I’ll explain it.”
“I've been told I'm an excellent kisser.”
Source: The Guardians
“I’ve been told that I cannot change shit, so I might as well stop torturing myself. My emotions are ridiculed and branded as childish. I have been told that the world has given up on my people. I have been told, and realise that on many occasions, I myself am viewed as an outcast by some of those suffering. I’ve been confronted and my answer is always the same: I care even in my most fucked-up moments. I care even when gates of shit pour open to drown me; I care because I am a citizen of the world.”
Source: An Ishmael of Syria
“I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans.”
Source: My Pet Human
“I’ve been told that you value delicacy and yearn for beauty,’ the old man went on. ‘So seek beauty, Miss Prim. Seek it in silence, in tranquillity; seek it in the middle of the night and at dawn. Pause to close doors while you seek it, and don’t be surprised if it doesn’t reside in museums or palaces. Don't be surprised if, in the end, you find beauty to be not Something but Someone.”
Source: The Awakening of Miss Prim
“I've been too tired to post much for a few days. Or maybe more precisely, too tired to think about what to post.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“I’ve been torn with what’s right and what’s wrong,” he said. “Maybe I’m not the best one to judge. All I know is that I’ve wanted to do this for a while, and nothing has ever felt more right.”
He closed the distance between them, brushing his lips against hers.”
Source: Stone Cursed: Zodiac Shifters: Taurus
“I’ve been traveling in a cocoon. It’s meant to rip apart.”
Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“I've been trying not to think about the things I wanted but couldn't have.
I figured life must be about what you can't have.
Some part of me has given up wanting anything.
Why? I'm human, aren't I?
Even though I knew that this was pointless.
Why did I fall in love?”
Source: No Touching At All
“I've been trying to be like everybody else for the last thirty-one years. If it was possible, I think I'd have done it already.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“I've been trying to go home my whole life—”
“I’ve been trying to kill that name most of my adult life, but I always weaken when somebody whispers it in my ear.”
Source: Titan
“I’ve been trying to make you happy for six years now, hoping somehow that would make me happy too, but I don’t think it’s working. You’re not really happy with me because I’m not happy with you because I’m not happy with me.”
Source: Again, But Better
“I’ve been trying to stay real
and true and proud of who I am,
all those ideals of how to look
I’ve been trying not to care.
But I’m still holding my breath,
I ‘m still watching every step.
I’m still tip-toeing away,
when I’m getting to ashamed of myself.
I don’t want to be your letdown,
I’m scared like hell I’m not enough.
I don’t wanna be
your failure anymore.
— The Glass Child, Letdown”
“I’ve been trying to take things slowly because I didn’t want to scare you with the intensity of how I feel.”
Source: His Untamed Desire
“I’ve been trying to write the perfect book since high school. e results are in a large Rubbermaid tub in my closet. I don’t know what all is in there, but I do know that the tub makes a great stepping stool when I want to organize my socks on the top shelf of my closet.”
Source: Awkwardly Awesome: Embracing My Imperfect Best
“I’ve been very busy recently, trying to stay a child”
Source: Petit pays
“I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.”
Source: Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights
“I've been waiting for someone just like you to take the initiative and simply step into the role that is required before a safe, sane and consensual dialogue with non-human sentience occurs.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“I’ve been waiting for you for a very long time.” I raised her off my shoulders, lowered her to me, and guided her legs around my waist. “Why did you take so long to come to me?”
“If I knew you were here, I would’ve come so much sooner.”
Source: The Muse
“I’ve been waiting for you.” His voice sizzled with hunger.
How could I respond? I’ve been thinking about you non-stop like a sex-crazed harlot since I left?
“I’m here.”
Source: Dark Velvet
“I’ve been waiting half an hour for you to wake up.” His voice was uneven and raspy.
“Is that right?” she murmured.”
Source: Danger Next Door
“I’ve been warned I may make some impulsive decisions, and may suffer from random emotional outbursts,’ he said, through a tight smile. ‘Especially when I’m hungry.”
Source: The Island of Lost Secrets
“I’ve been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I’ve never complained. Shame on you. I’m embarrassed to have a son like you…can’t even look after his own bicycle. You just wait until your dad comes home. Then you’ll be in trouble, I can tell you that much.”
Poul-Erik’s Mother
The Informer”
Source: The Informer
“I've been watching Buffy on my laptop. I'm at the end of season two where the instructions for restoring Angel's soul have been saved onto a floppy disk, but Willow's lost the floppy disk down the side of a desk, so Angel's not going to get his soul back in time and Buffy will end up having to kill him. It's such a dumb reason for a vampire to have to die---just a stupid yellow floppy disk, and the fact that a desk and a cabinet aren't pushed close enough together. If it were today, the instructions would have been backed up to the cloud, so everything would have worked out fine.”
Source: Woman, Eating
“I've been watching Buffy on my laptop. I'm at the end of season two where the instructions for restoring Angel's soul have been saved onto a floppy disk, but Willow's lost the floppy disk down the side of a desk, so Angel's not going to get his soul back in time and Buffy will end up having to kill him. It's such a dumb reason for a vampire to have to die---just a stupid yellow floppy disk, and the fact that a desk and a cabinet aren't pushed close enough together. If it were today, the instructions would have worked out fine.”
Source: Woman, Eating
“I’ve been watching you drink,” he says. “Think it’s a good idea to put your liver through this?”
“What are you the public service message fairy?”
“Just being polite.”
“Well I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that you, sir, have taken the being polite thing too far. Why don’t you just ask me out already so I can refuse and you can leave me the fuck alone?”
Source: The Devil's Breath
“I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative way. But the shitty thing is, that never helps you feel better. It just lands you in a worse situation, like towing the car of a perfectly nice girl who had nothing to do with the pain you’re in.”
Source: She Drives Me Crazy
“I've been wondering all day what flavor lip gloss you've got on."
"Dr. Pepper," I say, before my brain starts to work again.
"Lip Smackers?" He laughs. "Really?"
"My mom always puts a ton of them in my stocking at Christmas," I try to explain, but really, what's the point now? He already knows my taste in cosmetics hasn't changed since the seventh grade.
"I like it."
"You do?"
"Well, let me double-check," he says, and then he licks his bottom lip before he kisses me again. I feel the tip of his tongue soft against mine, taste the sweetness of his breath as he kisses me deeper. Then he moves his lips, all warm and soft over to my ear and kisses me there until I can't speak.”
Source: Stay Until We Break
“I've been wondering... I mean, I thought you might be able to tell me something."
Buddy met my eyes and I saw, for the first time, how he had changed. Instead of the old, sure smile that flashed on easily and frequently as a photographer's bulb, his face was grave, even tentative -- the face of a man who often does not get what he wants.
"I'll tell you if I can, Buddy."
"Do you think there's something in me that drives women crazy?”
Source: the bell jar
“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”
Source: Court Duel
“I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be.”
“I've been working nonstop my entire adult life.”
Source: Baby X
“I’ve been working really hard at fine-tuning my skills. Trial and error have been a great teacher for me. That’s something I didn’t quite understand how to utilize, to my advantage, when I was younger.”
“I’ve been wrapped up in trying to find something that feels like home instead of questioning why I even think that’s so important.”
Source: The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir
“I’ve been writing like a madman for the past hour. I must say it was not easy to write the words, let alone think them.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed.”
“I've believed that before. Somehow, I can't... I can't keep clinging to fringes of hope.”
Source: Defenders of the Black Crown
“I've bet my life on this group, I can't just decide something based on my own individual opinion. That's why I do it, and all of us have the attitude, 'Let's do it,' for all those different activities. And my attitude is to go along with it.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me.”
Source: Defiant
“I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce