I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.”
“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”
“I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“I was supposed to claim your heart. Yet, in the end, you were the one who took my heart”
Source: A Taste of Poison
“I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he died. So that was really tragic. That put the whole project on the shelf.”
“I was supposed to go out with this girl, but the plans mixed up because I was working late. So I went to her apartment with a flower. She was asleep, but I really wanted to see her. I figured I'd be like Romeo, and climbed up to her balcony and gave her a rose. She was very shocked. After that, it was over.”
“I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.”
“I was supposed to go up for something recently that was a six-year commitment, and I didn't want to do it. It was a terrible part as well. I don't want to be doing six years of something. I'd go crazy.”
“I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.”
Source: The White Album
“I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.”
Source: The Inheritance Games
“I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.”
Source: Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
“I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'”
“I was supposed to worry about his future qualifications more than his ability to be content. I was not willing to do that. I didn’t feel that the two should be in conflict achieving your potential and not being completely miserable.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
“I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.”
“I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.”
“I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.”
“I was sure he'd calculated the risks, and decided it was safe. And every day of my life was a risk.”
Source: Shantaram
“I was sure of myself, of everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of the death that was waiting for me. Yes, that was all I had. But at least I had as much of a hold on it as it had on me. I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that. I hadn’t done this thing but I had done another. So what? It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to vindicate me. Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout this whole absurd life I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from the depths of my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed it leveled all that had been possible in the equally unreal years that I was living. What did the death of other people or a mother’s love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we’re all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.”
Source: The Stranger
“I was sure that I was going to write stories myself when I grew up. It’s important to put it like that - not "I am a writer," but rather "I write stories." If you put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you’re in danger of thinking that you’re the most important thing. But you’re not. The story is what matters, and you’re only the servant, and your job is to get it out on time and in good order.”
Source: The Collectors
“I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have such courage and self-awareness of auto-destruction as River does. - Agnieszka Holland”
Source: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
“I was sure the old man knew nothing about the beatitudes, ecstasies, dazzling reverberations of sexual encounters. Cut out the poetry was his message. Clinical sex, deprived of all the warmth of love—the orchestration of all the senses, touch, hearing, sight, palate; all the euphoric accompaniments, back-ground music, moods, atmosphere, variations—forced him to resort to literary aphrodisiacs.”
Source: Delta of Venus
“I was sure, then, with Chloe relaxing beside me and her lips pressed gently against the skin by my collarbone, that if there somehow were a Heaven up there, she’d fit right in.”
“I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.”
“I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.”
Source: Shiver
“I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.”
Source: The Help
“I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.”
“I was surprised after many years of being prescribed drugs and treatments by the medical profession that my altitude hypersensitivity was being controlled by just two nutritional supplements.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“I was surprised at her gentleness, her willingness to give in.”
Source: Stolen
“I was surprised at how angry Hillary Clinton was last night.I don't know whether she's not - whether she's sick or she's not. I do know that there are 14, 15 videos of her that show her in very, very strange condition. I don't know what it is.”
“I was surprised at how deep the summit caldera was of the Mauna Loa volcano!”
“I was surprised at how much general fear and anxiety lurked inside me these days. I'd never been a fearful person, never even understood phobias like fear of heights of water or snakes or any of those things. And while I knew that my coming out as a transgender person was going to throw certain people for a loop, I somehow hadn't realized how much it would throw me.”
Source: Parrotfish
“I was surprised at how quickly the hurricane Ian disaster in Florida started to drop out of mainstream news.”
“I was surprised at how simple the treatment for Altitude Hypersensitivity was.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“I was surprised at how straight the line was and at how easy it was for me to hurt myself this way.”
Source: Prozac Nation
“I was surprised at the great lengths that the government goes to in order to deny eligible disability claims.”
“I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."”
“I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.”
“I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.”
“I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.”
“I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.”
“I was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes.”
“I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.”
“I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.”
“I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.”
“I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.”
“I was surprised he could do any amount of labor wearing the pants he had on. I don’t understand skinny jeans for men. Who wants to walk around with their balls in a vise?”
Source: Epilogue
“I was surprised how I was feeling on the court because I was focused only on the point and on the game and not on the final.”
“I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.”
“I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.”