I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience
“I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.”
“I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.”
“I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.”
“I was so open-minded, my brain slipped out.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.”
“I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.”
“I was so paranoid that my friends wouldn't like me. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were very real. You couldn't just push some nameless face in the hallway because everybody knew each other's families, so there wasn't the obligatory psychotic jackass that tortured everybody.”
“I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.”
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
“I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.”
“I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.”
“I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.”
“I was so raw from repeated exposure to cruelty that now even the most minor abrasions left a mark.”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field.”
“I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.”
“I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.”
Source: Just Listen
“I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.”
“I was so scared of losing you, living my life without you but
You left!”
Source: The Mystic Soul
“I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.”
“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.”
“I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.”
“I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.”
“I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?”
“I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.”
“I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.”
“I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.”
“I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.”
“I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.”
“I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.”
“I was so sick that I found myself worrying about the future of man's soul, my own in particular.”
Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.”
“I was so sleep deprived that I could barely see straight as we walked into the soundless dark. I tried to get the boy to speak to me but he just continued walking forward without muttering a word.”
Source: FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster
“I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there.”
“I was so, so done with decapitation for one day.”
Source: The Alpha's Warlock
“I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.”
“I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.”
“I was so stupid, doing that swim, just trying to impress people. I always thought Joe was better than me. I wanted him to like me.'
'Why did you think he was better than you? Because your parents did?'
Nora felt angry at Mrs. Elm's directness. But maybe she had a point. 'I always had to do what they wanted me to do in order to impress them. Joe had his issues, obviously. And I didn't really understand those issues until I knew he was gay, but they say sibling rivalry isn't about siblings but parents, and I always felt my parents just encouraged his dreams a bit more.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.”
Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
“I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it was just a summer to a summer, a dizzying breath of honeysuckle and whiskey and candle smoke, inhaled, held, let go.”
Source: Unteachable
“I was so sure we’d be together ten years from then, [...], with the same bond as ever. We said lofty things like friends forever, that we’d be there at each other’s weddings, even though we were a thousand miles apart.”
“I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing”
“I was so taken aback by the question that I had to think about my response for a minute. Had I heard what I thought I heard? ... Remembering Zora Neale Hurston's Janie, I felt something inside me fall off the shelf, and I had to go inside and look around to see what it was.”
“I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any sport at all, no matter how hard they tried to convince me to be on the girls' basketball team as the tallest kid in class.”
“I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.”
“I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.”
“I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.”
“I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.”
“I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television”