I Quotes
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“I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers.”
“I was slumped next to him. He didn't pay any attention to me, but kept snickering as he drove. It was annoying. I had PMS and a test this morning. Boy, had he picked the wrong girl.”
Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“I was small but slow as a college tackle.”
“I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.”
“I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.”
“I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.”
“I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.”
“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
Source: Quote Me Everyday
“I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.”
“I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.”
“I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn't change, I forgot the most important thing. It's always the heart. Situations might not change, but people change.”
Source: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.”
“I was so afraid of being a bad person that I couldn't see what was right in front of me. We all were. We were so busy proving we weren't bigots that we let it happen. Because asking questions was worse than getting eaten.”
Source: Devoured by Diversity: A Satire
“I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.”
“I was so afraid of being sad, I never gave myself any chance to be happy”
Source: Modern Human's Handbook
“I was so afraid of my own need that I couldn’t look need in the eye.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.”
“I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.”
Source: Between the Lines: The Complete Series
“I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.”
“I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.”
“I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.”
“I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.”
“I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
“I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.”
“I was so angry with him, but part of me felt exhilarated by his sheer cockiness. Even under the influence of God knows how many rounds of drinks at Dave’s, Wild Bill still had enough charisma to charm away any negative thoughts.
He never taught me to ride a bike, bandaged a skinned knee, or comforted me over bullies teasing me for wearing Salvation Army clothes. But Wild Bill was my dad. And that was enough.
We both erupted into laughter as I wrapped my arms around him, breathing in the distinctive scent belonging only to Dad.”
Source: Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell
“I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be-because my friends back home described so many types-and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. You didn't shove your tongue down my throat. You didn't grab my butt. We just held our lips together...and kissed.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.”
“I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“I was so ashamed for a mistake I made unknowingly when I was completely out of control and lost my mind for some reasons. I thought about to end my life next day at some point. I was struggling to cope with my pain, shame and thinking about others who I had hurt unintentionally. The worst moment came when people who I loved most had pulled out their support and threatens me to end relationships. Lesson learns hard way that people who are not with you at worst time of your life have no right to stand beside you when you are at best. Life goes on...........”
“I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”
Source: The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“I was so ashamed of who I was.”
“I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.”
Source: Memories
“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”
Source: Excellent Women
“I was so attracted to him I could have peed myself right there on the spot, but I hadn't done anything like that in a while. I was older now, and harnessed my feelings in moments like these by opening and closing my fists very rapidly.”
Source: Nightlight: A Parody
“I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“I was so bad with the food and alcohol in Nashville. If you saw me naked compared to what I looked like when I did Iron Man 2, when I was exercising every day - I'll get it back together, but I've never eaten so much fried food and white flour in my life, ever.”
“I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.”
“I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.”
“I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.”
“I was so blessed.
The first person
I gave my heart to
was an angel
who plucked the feathers
off his wings
and built a nest for it.”
“I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.”
“I was so bowled over when he said he would come to Korea himself to direct the vocals. I thought, 'Wow...Think of how much you'd have to love music to do that! Have I ever put that much passion into something myself...?”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.”
“I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.”
“I was so busy making maps I let them argue. I figured I’d show them a picture of where the rift valley was and where it pulled apart. There’s truth in the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words and that seeing is believing.”
“I was so caught up in my thoughts I did not notice the wire till I got caught up in it. Right. Of course. Tomato patch. Those poor fruits. Or vegetables. Those poor fruitables. Those poor veguits.
I have too much time on my hands.”
Source: The Community: A Funny and Disturbing Conspiracy Mystery Novel
“I was so caught up in the discussion that I almost didn't notice Apicata sneaking shy glances at young Casca. Celera had, however, and was watching with amusement. She winked at me when she saw I had also noticed their interest. As Casca mouthed a sweet nothing to Apicata, Celera seized the moment.
"Apicata, I understand you have begun reading the Histories of Herodotus. Tell me, how do you like them?"
She almost choked on her honey water, not expecting to be addressed. Casca averted his eyes when he saw me looking in his direction and both of them turned as red as the cushions upon which we were seated.
Apicata recovered quickly. "I've almost finished them. Father was entertaining Annaeus Seneca and when he heard I had not yet read it, he sent me a copy."
"Have you reached the part about how the Ethiopians bury their dead in crystal coffins?" Casca asked, turning his body to rest his chin on both hands and stare at her directly.
"Oh, yes, I'm long past that! I'm reading about how Xerxes had the waters of Hellespont whipped for not obeying him." Her eyes sparkled.
"Wait till you reach the Battle of Thermopylae. What a heroic story!"
The exchange continued for a few minutes with additional commentary from the others, who were oblivious to the undercurrent between the youths.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“I was so close to get you then I realised I was following your steps not your essence.”
“I was so close to her that I could lean down just a bit...her lips were so close...I could lean down and kiss those full pink lips. I heard her heartbeat speeding up in her chest and it almost shattered any control that I had.”
Source: Scarred
“I was so cold and he was so warm. My body felt so tired and weak and he was so solid and…comfortable.
So this was why people liked to cuddle.
Huh.”
Source: The Prom Kiss