I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.”
“I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.”
“I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.”
Source: Up a Road Slowly
“I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.”
“I was Europe's last chance.”
“I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.”
“I was even surprised when in Spa Kimi said to me, ‘Congratulations on your son's birth!’ this is only thing Kimi said to me in two years.”
“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”
“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”
Source: My Life and My Life in the Nineties
“I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.”
“I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.”
Source: Elizabeth I
“I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.”
“I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left. Do not speak to me of being a Shadowhunter. I am not one of them. I refuse to be.”
Source: The Midnight Heir
“I was exactly as angry as every other woman I knew. It wasn't that we'd been born angry; we'd become women and ended up angry.”
Source: Liars
“I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.”
“I was exaggerating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I meant to say was: I thought you hated me. I was hoping you’d persuade me of the opposite—and you did, for a while. Why won’t I believe it tomorrow morning?”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I was examining the perfumed, coloured candles guaranteed to bring good fortune with continued use when a lovely mocha-skinned girl came in from the back room and stood behind the counter. She wore a white smock over her dress and looked about nineteen or twenty. Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany. A number of thin, silver hoops jingled on her fine-boned wrist. "May I help you?" she asked. Just beneath her carefully modulated diction lingered the melodic calypso lilt of the Caribbean.”
Source: Falling Angel
“I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.”
“I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases”
Source: Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864
“I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.”
“I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.”
“I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.”
“I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Terminator did to T2. It was still the Terminator franchise, but it was something kind of bigger and grander.”
“I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.”
“I was excited because getting to know oneself was exciting. I was beginning to believe that I had the power to influence my own personality.”
Source: Menfreya in the Morning
“I was excited, I supposed. In a way in which I wanted to throw up from nerves.”
Source: A Question of Holmes
“I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.”
“I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.”
“I was excited to explore and see the world. I'd been traveling since I was 6 months old, so I was never fearful of getting on a plane and going somewhere - even America.”
“I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.”
“I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.”
“I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.”
“I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!"”
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
“I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)”
Source: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition
“I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.”
“I was expecting this life to be what it is not, and was never meant to be: perfect. And being the idealistic that I am, I was struggling with every cell in my body to make it so. It had to be perfect. And I would not stop until it was. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears to this endeavor: making the dunya into jannah.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.”
“I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.”
“I was exposed to a cut-throat life that spoke a language of hate.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I was exposed to a cut-throat life that spoke a language of hate. The emptiness in my life had more than one million questions. However, I was immune to abandon answers. Although I had one million questions, I received two million answers that were one lie after another.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a lasting passion. We went on nature walks and I became fascinated with the environment as I got older.”
“I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.”
“I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.”
“I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.”
“I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.”
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.”
Source: The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California
“I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.”
“I was extremely aggressive from the start.”