I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was honored when [Donald Trump] asked me to chair the transition effort.”
“I was hooked on the plot of the waves.”
Source: Twist
“I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?”
“I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.”
“I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.”
“I was hopelessly gone for Lexi Harper. She was the ocean—consuming, devastating, no hope of predicting or controlling her—and I was a helpless little piece of sea glass, thrown around in the pull of her tide, hoping to have my sharp edges smoothed by her touch.”
Source: Harper's Landing
“I was hopelessly looking for the sky in the abyss
But it turned out that it is in your eyes”
“I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It’s a good lesson, isn’t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.”
“I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.”
“I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.”
“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”
“I was hoping that by very publicly going to the police, other people would follow suit. Around this time was the whole Rehtaeh Parsons publication ban bullshit. She died because she couldn't handle the stress of having been assaulted and ridiculed for having been raped. And I was like, "I'm not going to turn into Rehtaeh Parsons for this. I will remain public."”
“I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.”
“I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.”
“I was hoping that the first time you expressed affection for me, it would not be in a room full of strangers. And that you would not have just said it to a sniveling creature like that Raymond!”
“I expressed affection for Ray?”
“Yes!”
“Man, I really must be drunk.” Louis-Cesare just looked at me. I blinked politely back, until I realized that he expected a response.”
Source: In Vino Veritas
“I was hoping the journal would provide answers to my grandfather’s mysterious life, but it seemed to be producing more questions than answers.”
Source: My Unusual Talent
“I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-”
“I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you.”
“I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you. And I could not believe the backlash. I could not believe that people twisted and turned that story - and accused me of having body image issues or an eating disorder. And then someone explained to me that most people on the planet probably don't know what Weight Watchers is, that it's really just about good eating habits.”
“I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
“I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.”
“I was hoping to discuss my grade on last week’s assignment.”
“Which was?”
The cup size I wish I had… “D.”
Source: Resonance
“I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.”
“I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.”
Source: Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
“I was hoping to find happiness and God sent you to me. I was hoping to find inspiration and I found you. I was hoping to achieve my impossible dreams and I achieved them and I love you forever.”
“I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.”
“I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“I was hoping you'd finally open your eyes and realize that I was there. I was right in front of you.”
Source: Addicted to You
“I was hoping you had a secret kinky side. If you ever want to know what I fantasize about, I'll be more than happy to share."
Layla groaned. "I'm not interested in hearing about your aspirations to be a dancer in the Broadway production of A Chorus Line.”
Source: The Marriage Game
“I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.”
“I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!”
“I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.”
“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.”
“I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.”
“I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.”
“I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.”
“I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.”
“I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.”
“I was hostile, and I had every right to be. Middle school didn't make any sense. If you were mean, people liked you. If you were nice, people were mean. If you teased girls, they smiled and laughed. If you complimented them, they frowned and walked away. If you were bad in class, you were hailed in the hallway. If you were good in class, you were bullied in the locker room. The pretty girls dated the ugly boys, and the only friends you had were the ones you didn't want.”
Source: Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
“I was hot and horny as hell.
Which was typical of me. I’m twenty-five, and I’m healthy, and a healthy girl is always thinking about sex.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.”
“I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.”
“I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.”
“I was hungry and I was looking for a way to better my life. With boxing, I didn't have to make a team. It wasn't like baseball or football. I could just walk in the gym and start doing something that I liked.”
“I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.”
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.”
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays