I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was surprised. It's not often that a woman receives an apology from a man, especially not in such circumstances. I am far more used to being told: You need to learn to take a joke, or; Why must you be so sensitive? Little girls are taught the lesson almost from the cradle. Boys will be boys. It's a man's world. It's because he likes you.”
Source: A Narrow Door
“I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.”
“I was surprised she'd heard us. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you. My sense of invisibility had made me loose-lipped.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“I was surprised that each expert cared for different images, and had varied suggestions for how to continue my work. If each expert had been my teacher, I would have pursued four different directions, and lost my way.”
“I was surprised that just two supplements taken together could make Altitude Hypersensitivity subside.”
“I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.”
“I was surprised the USA medical profession could not diagnose low blood oxygen levels, multiple chemical sensitivity to abnormal air, food intolerance, malnutrition, altitude hypersensitivity, loss of circadian rhythm and loss of moonlight synchronization.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“I was surprised to feel his hand brush against mine---he'd crossed the room without a whisper of sound---his grip feather-light.
I froze, realizing that he was about to kiss me only a second after I knew I was going to kiss him. I leaned forward, but he put a hand on the side of my face, very gently, his fingers brushing the edge of my hair. A little shiver went through me. His thumb was by the corner of my mouth, and it made me think of the time when I had touched him there, when I'd thought he was dying from loss of blood. For a heartbeat, all the other moments we'd shared faded away, leaving behind only the small handful of times we'd been close like this, connected somehow like a bright constellation. He brushed his lips against my cheek, and I felt the warmth sink all the way to my bones, chasing out the ice of the snow king's court.
"Good night, Em," he murmured, his breath fluttering against my ear and sending a river of goosebumps down my neck.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation
“I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.”
Source: From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“I was surprised to hear you'd grown up on a ranch," he said.
"What is that?"
"You don't like cowboy art."
She chuckled. "You think they go hand in hand?”
Source: Reunion at Cardwell Ranch
“I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.”
“I was surprised to learn that hope is quite different from wishing or fantasizing. Hope leads to future success in a way that wishful thinking does not. While both involve thinking about the future with rich imagery, only hope sparks us to action directed toward the hoped-for goal.”
“I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.”
“I was surprised to see my body no longer exhibiting food intolerance after many years of having it.”
Source: Summit Brain
“I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.”
“I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.”
“I was surprised when I discovered my mercury poisoning that the company had changed its mercury handling policies years earlier and had not informed me.”
“I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.”
“I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“I was surprised when I started to use light therapy in summertime 2020 that I had seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and was responding to the treatment.”
“I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.”
“I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.”
“I was surprised when President Obama showed up to open the Desoto Solar Farm, as we knew it was dangerous at that point.”
“I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.”
Source: Texas: A Novel
“I was surprised when the treatment for ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ turned out to be hypobaric therapy.”
“I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn't in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.”
“I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
“I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.”
“I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.”
“I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.”
“I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.”
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy
“I was surrounded by heaven. The sun, the moon, the earth, and all those living stars. They wen't static like in pictures taken from impossibly far away- they breathed, they glowed. They were future and past, possibility and memory. They were beautiful.
"I never knew there were so many," I whispered. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Out deaths will mean nothing to them.
"I feel so small." No one replied. I wondered as I watched the stars, really seeing them for the fist time, whether they could see me, too.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.
All the little duckies, with their heads in the water
Heads in the water.
It was my punishment. Honor lost. Everything lost.
Shame is a hunter.
My shame was all around me now.”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.”
“I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace”
“I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.”
“I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.”
“I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.”
“I was surrounded by talented people. I always remember Mrs. Carmel Snow, saying to me, "You know, Polly, if one person thinks they're a big star, then we're all stars. You just go out there and always do your best. And always have time to see any designer - no matter how big or how small, have time to see them. You don't have to just see the big shots. You never know what's coming around the corner and the talent that is going to be important. That is your job."”
“I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.”
“I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.”
“I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.”
“I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.”
“I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.”
“I was tainted.
With her blood.
Their blood.
And the disease of my despair.
There was no cleansing something so tainted.
This was who I was now.
This was War.”
Source: This is War, Baby