I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.”
“In the back of my closet, I saw a pink wrap dress that was hopelessly Southern. Pale pink, with little flutter sleeves all in a Swiss-dot fabric that you could see through if you held it up to the light. I would need nude undergarments, which I was sure I had. My mom always told me never to wear wild undies, you never knew who'd see them! What if I got in a car wreck?
I pulled my hair up and allowed a few red curls to fall out of a messy bun at the nape of my neck. I slipped the dress on and gave my lips a quick swipe of gloss. I chose small gold hoop earrings that had belonged to Gran at one time and stepped into a pair of gold flip-flops. I looked at myself in the mirror and reminded myself I was going to a farm.
Jim walked in. "Ready for the big... Oh, my God, Magnolia!"
"What? Too much?" I said, grimacing.
"Good God, no! You look absolutely perfect! You look like a mouthwatering pink confection! A true Southern Magnolia!”
Source: My Magnolia Summer
“In the back of my mind I know that this is wrong and I have somewhere I need to be. Like laughing at a joke, then remembering that somebody died. Guilty pleasure.”
Source: All I Ever Wanted
“In the back of my mind, I thought maybe I would find my Robert Redford in New Orleans. We made our way to the city by afternoon and planned to drive home when the sun rose over Lake Pontchartrain. We had no idea where else to go, except to Bourbon Street. We walked toward the bright lights and glowing colors of one strip club after another…. In 1975, Big Daddy’s was the top, topless go-go joint on Bourbon.”
Source: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.”
“In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.”
“In the back of my mind, I want it to do well, but at the end of the day I literally just got down on my knees and prayed - "However you want this thing to go lord, let it go that way." Low and behold, it did what it did and it's doing what it's doing. I'm just trying to sit in the saddle on this deal, just trying to stay on board!”
“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean they hardly needed to go in the dishwasher. The fools.”
Source: After Cleo
“In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere.”
“In the back of your hypnotic mind
Hidden behind your fears
Lost between your dreams
…
Bewitched by the scent of your soul
Lured in the ash of your fate
…
Hanged in the delirium of your whispers
Graced by your immortal beauty within
…
Agonized in your chaotic universe
Vanished in your far away sights
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Deceived in your fanatical passion
Injured by the perfection of your brain
…
Denuded of fears in front of your judging
Kidnapped by your timeless appearance...to the end of love
(fragments from I'll be there, chapter Passion)”
Source: The odyssey of my lost thoughts
“In the back of your mind you always want it to be successful and you want things to happen, but I've learned in my life that if you want something too much, even when it happens it may not be what you wanted if you set your expectations too high.”
“In the background, I heard somebody laughing. It was me. If I just went mad like this, oh how pleasant it would be.”
Source: Tokyo Ghoul
“In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.”
“In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.”
Source: Everwild
“In the backwoods of our emotions, we may encounter confusion, fear, and loss. Love can be chaotic and unpredictable and is often a source of suffering or joy. Love is a test of our identity, measuring the depth of our values in the face of life's vagaries. (“Crépuscule du désir “)”
“In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies.”
“In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.”
Source: Manhunting
“In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others children for fear of what they'd hear, one knew that they were speaking-or not speaking, keeping their unhappy silence-on behalf of stricken motherhood everywhere in the country.”
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
“In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe.”
Source: Reason to Breathe
“In the balance of things, new life always wins out over death...”
Source: The Holiday Spirit
“In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.”
Source: Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star
“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth.”
Source: This Shattered World
“In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.”
“In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them - until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.”
Source: The Girl Next Door
“In the bathroom, I studied my body, trying to see what he had seen. My hipbones were more prominent than I remembered, probably from all the days of being unable to eat after discovering Jonathan’s betrayal. My thinness suddenly angered me. Why had I punished myself when it had been him that had been at fault? I should have pampered myself, nurtured my soul with my favourite foods and wine and spent time with friends instead of languishing at home and drowning myself in work.”
Source: Taken by a Stranger
“In the battle against the heartless monstrous beasts, the mighty warrior first rips off his face to become a daunting faceless demon.
He murders his soul to become a soulless leviathan; he wanders the world as an omnipresent ghost, haunting the wrongdoers, even in their dreams, rendering them sleepless and paralysed in bed, killing them ever so slowly from within even before they are truly killed.”
Source: FT Legacy 1: Who is Frank Twine?
“In the battle between culture and love, culture should win because the culture is made for love”
“In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.”
“In the battle between planning and action, action wins.”
“In the battle between the eyes, ears, and mouth, eyes will always win because your eyes cannot see your mouth and your ears”
“In the battle between the heart and the mind, it is often the soul that loses.”
“In the battle between the heart and the mind, winners always listen to their hearts”
“In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.”
“In the battle field, even if I lose my life, it is like losing my hair but in the battle field, even if I lose my single hair, the opponents will die in lakhs”
“In the battle for possession of souls and worlds, it is likely that all serve to only one master.”
Source: Alien Biography
“In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.”
Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children
“In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.”
“In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.”
“In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
“In the battle of real world vs. textbook, the real world will win every time.”
Source: An Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring: A Guide to Mastering the Business of Vip Security
“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”
Source: Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays
“In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.”
“In the Bay, whenever I got depressed, I always drove out to the Ocean Beach. Just to sit. And, I don't know, something about looking at water, how it just goes and goes and goes, something about that I found very soothing. As if somehow I were connected to every ripple that was sending itself out and out until it reached another shore.”
“In the bazaar, everything sells
Bangle, booze, belief, bride
As a buyer, it is your wisdom
To purchase things, or to sustain pride…”
“In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.”
“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others”
Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring
“In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.”