I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.”
“In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.”
Source: Lolita
“In and through community lies the salvation of the world.”
Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
“In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.”
“In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.”
“In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.”
“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
“In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.”
Source: Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions
“In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.”
“In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.”
“In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.”
“In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.”
“In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others.”
“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”
Source: Raising Steam
“In another building, I was shown his [Mr Brunel's] manufactory of shoes, which, like the other, is full of ingenuity, and, in regard to subdivision of labour, brings this fabric on a level with the oft-admired manufactory of pins. Every step in it is effected by the most elegant and precise machinery; while as each operation is performed by one hand, so each shoe passes through twenty-five hands, who complete from the hide, as supplied by the currier, a hundred pair of strong and well-finished shoes per day. All the details are performed by ingenious applications of the mechanic powers, and all the parts are characterized by precision, uniformity, and accuracy. As each man performs but one step in the process, which implies no knowledge of what is done by those who go before or follow him, so the persons employed are not shoemakers, but wounded soldiers, who are able to learn their respective duties in a few hours. The contract at which these shoes are delivered to government is 6s. 6d. per pair, being at least 2s. less than what was paid previously for an unequal and cobbled article.
While, however, we admire these triumphs of mechanics, and congratulate society on the prospect of enjoying more luxuries at less cost of human labour, it ought not to be forgotten, that the general good in such cases is productive of great partial evils, against which a paternal government ought to provide. No race of workmen being proverbially more industrious than shoemakers, it is altogether unreasonable, that so large a portion of valuable members of society should be injured by improvements which have the ultimate effect of benefiting the whole.”
Source: A Morning's Walk from London to Kew
“In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series of ghosts who, by showing him bleak visions of Christmas future, past, and present, would bring about in him a change to generosity, kindness, and a general warmth toward his fellow man. But this is not that kind of Christmas story, so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.”
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.”
Source: Maggot Moon
“In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.”
“In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.”
“In another culture, Giuliano Marcolini might have been described as fat: Italians, however, graced with a language from which euphemism springs with endless sympathy, would describe him as 'robusto'.”
Source: Suffer the Little Children
“In another curious and roundabout way, however, the Nazis gave a propaganda answer to the question of what their future role would be, and that was in their use of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as a model for the future organization of the German masses for “world empire.” The use of the Protocols was not restricted to the Nazis; hundreds of thousands of copies were sold in postwar Germany, and even their open adoption as a handbook of politics was not new. Nevertheless, this forgery was mainly used for the purpose of denouncing the Jews and arousing the mob to the dangers of Jewish domination. In terms of mere propaganda, the discovery of the Nazis was that the masses were not so frightened by Jewish world rule as they were interested in how it could be done, that the popularity of the Protocols was based on admiration and eagerness to learn rather than on hatred, and that it would be wise to stay as close as possible to certain of their outstanding formulas, as in the case of the famous slogan: “Right is what is good for the German people,” which was copied from the Protocols’ “Everything that benefits the Jewish people is morally right and sacred”.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“In another kingdom, her secrets wouldn't matter.”
Source: Ember Dragon Daughter
“In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.”
“In another life, he would’ve been everything. In this one, he was the boy who almost got to know me before I shattered.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“In another life, I could love you.”
Source: Walking Disaster
“In another life, I think I would’ve liked to have been your sister,” I smiled at her.
“In another life, I think I would’ve liked that, too,” she answered, squeezing my hand in hers.”
Source: Thrones of Ash and Arrows
“In another life, I think we could have been friends.”
“In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?”
“In another life Nora was a sea of emotion. She felt everything deeply and directly. Every joy and every sorrow. A single moment could contain both intense pleasure and intense pain, as if both were dependent on each other, like a pendulum in motion.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“In another life Nora was a sea of emotion. She felt everything deeply and directly. Every joy and every sorrow. A single moment could contain both intense pleasure and intense pain, as if both were dependent on each other, like a pendulum in motion. A simple walk outside and she could feel a heavy sadness simply because the sun had slipped behind a cloud. Yet, conversely, meeting a dog who was clearly grateful for her attention caused her to feel so exultant that she felt she could melt into the pavement with sheer bliss. In that life she had a book of Emily Dickinson poems beside her bed and she had a playlist called ‘Extreme States of Euphoria’ and another one called ‘The Glue to Fix Me When I Am Broken’.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“In another life, we might have spent this evening nestled in a corner table at some café, drinking good Bordeaux, listening to Chet Baker, discussing hypothetical trips to the Greek islands or the construction of a backyard greenhouse where we would consider the merits of growing a lemon (or avocado?) tree in a pot and sit under a bougainvillea vine like the one my mom planted the year I turned eleven, before my dad left. Jazz. Santorini. Lemon trees. Beautiful, loving details, none of which matter anymore. Not in this life, anyhow. That chapter has ended. No, the book has.”
Source: All the Flowers in Paris
“In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.”
“In another life, I could be a personal shopper.”
“In another life, I would be your belle”
“In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away”
“In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.”
“In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.”
“In another lifetime, I’d choose you. Over and over again, without a moment’s hesitation.”
Source: Bella Donna
“In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.”
“In another minute life would be painful. The words were coming back, and inside the wrappings of the words there would be thoughts lying there. The hot sun would shrivel them; they must be kept inside in the dark.”
Source: The Sheltering Sky
“In another minute or two, those men would have tossed your skirts in that alley right there... if you were wearing skirts!” You should be thanking me for saving your sorry hide! By my calculations, that’s twice in one day.”
Source: A Beautiful Bounty
“In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.”
“In another play, he objected to the description of women as ‘an adornment’ and of love as ‘amusement’. ‘This is not how we look at women: they are the foundation of the nation,’ Atatürk wrote in the margin, and again, ‘To think of love as amusement is to devalue it.”
Source: Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
“In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.”
“In another show of America's force to the world, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by boycotting the Olympics. And thus was a fearsome blow struck at little fourteen-year-old American girls who had spent their lives training for the Olympics.”
Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
“In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.”
“In another surprising study published in 2010 in the journal Psychological Science, researchers Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger of Wayne State University examined vintage photos of 230 major league baseball players from the 1952 season, comparing the lifespans of the 184 players who had already died. Of the players’ photos in the baseball cards, 40% showed no smile, 42% showed a partial smile,
and 18% had a full smile. Those players who had no smiles lived an average of 72.9 years, while those
with partial smiles had a lifespan of 75 years. However, those with big authentic grins lived to be 79.9 years on average, approximately 10% longer than those who did not smile in their photographs.
The researchers could not confirm whether any of the players were prompted by the photographer to smile for their photos or if they smiled spontaneously. At the same time, the data seems to suggest that distributed images of smiling people result in a longer, happier life. So smile in your photos!”
Source: The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know
“In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination--until after it's run through a grinder with a whole bunch of other meat from other sources...It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you--just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap.”
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook