I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.”
“I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.”
“I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.”
“I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.”
“I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.”
“I bit a pillow. Or two.”
“I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.”
“I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down.
By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of layers a little more quickly. The chocolate chips were from a factory, so they had that same slight metallic, absent taste to them, and the butter had been pulled from cows in pens, so the richness was not as full. The eggs were tinged with a hint of far away and plastic. All of those parts hummed in the distance, and then the baker, who'd mixed the batter and formed the dough, was angry. A tight anger, in the cookie itself.”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“I bit into the oatmeal. Same levels- now the oats, well dried, but not so well watered, then the raisins, half tasteless, made from parched grapes, picked by thirsty workers, then the baker, rushed. The whole cookie was so rushed, like I had to eat it fast or it would, somehow, eat me.”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“I bit the inside of my cheek. I wanted to hit him. Not just for his presumptuousness, but for the way my heart jumped to my throat at his words and how his eyes looked me over.”
Source: Scarred
“I bite down on my tongue, fearing my easily fooled heart will spill a drop of ignorance down my cheek”
Source: The Crush
“I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them.”
Source: Punk 57
“I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.”
“I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.”
“I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.”
“I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.”
Source: Demon Apocalypse
“I bite the inside of my lip to conceal the smile forming. All right, so this is cool. Very cool. I’m well aware that I’m barely seventeen and in a bar because I’m hiding from the police, and the guy across from me is my opposite in more ways than I can calculate, but I can’t help but feel like a princess who has a knight pledging his loyalty.”
Source: Crash into You
“I bite the olive again. Again the bitter salt crisp ravishes my tongue. "If this is vanity, vanity let it be." The golden moments flit by and I heed them not. For am I not comfortably seated and eating an olive! Go hang yourself, you who have never been comfortably seated and eating an olive!”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.”
“I bitterly resent all that wasted time. And what I resent most of all is that the ones I did get never, never looked like the Greek statues.”
“The Greek-statue types may have been too busy going out with other boys to notice you.”
Source: Mrs. Caliban
“I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It's bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there's so much cool action.”
“I blame al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!”
“I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.”
“I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.”
“I blame boobs.”
Source: Pure
“I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee.”
Source: Stray
“I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.”
Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
“I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.”
“I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.”
“I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.” I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking?”
Source: Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life
“I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.”
“I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.”
“I blame myself every night we lose.”
“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.”
Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow
“I blame Riley for my broken thumb, not Matt Geiger. That ain't defense Miami is playing. That's just chopping. I have no idea how his team gets away with it. I guess when you've been in the league 30 years you can do it. Respect, he gets it - he's like John Gotti.”
“I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).”
“I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!”
“I blame the toxic stock market for the Boeing 737 Max accidents.”
“I blame the toxic USA management culture for the Boeing 737 Max accidents.”
“I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?”
“i blame your mother
for not building
your self-esteem
and encouraging you
to be a queen
i blame your father
for not loving you enough
to keep you from
searching for a love
in men who couldn’t
love you”
Source: Algedonic
“I blamed his gorgeous smile, his intoxicating smell, those mesmerizing blues, and mostly, I blamed how safe I felt with him; not just physically safe, but safe with all of my flaws and fears.”
“I blamed my absent husband for so many things, but I have come to see—life in general is to blame. Edward would have stayed home if there had been another way. I was too stubborn to recognize the truth.
What will he say when I meet him at the depot? For that matter, what am I to say? Perhaps neither of us will need to speak. We will embrace and hopefully capture our hearts in our gaze, which will be enough.”
Source: In a Grove of Maples
“I blamed my problems on the education system because it kept me busy and required me to maintain some semblance of sobriety. I blamed my problems
on the authorities because they drug tested me. I blamed my problems on the police because they kept me in check and held me accountable for my actions.
The real irony was that it was probably these things that kept me alive.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I blamed seaweed and pond water microorganisms, a cow’s eyeball, and my teachers, the real culprits, for starting me down this path. Just like accident investigators put together a timeline, I call this the causation analysis of my love life.”
“I blamed the Bible,
when its words were not at fault,
only the way they’re interpreted
by those too willing
to wield them like chain saws,
cutting others off at the knees.”
Source: Rumble
“I blast "Northern Sky," by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out.”
“I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!
Compton”
“I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.”