I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?”
“is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.”
Source: Hana: A Delirium Short Story
“Is this going anywhere? I have some important "Not being in the same room as you" to get done.”
Source: 8-Bit Theater
“Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.”
“Is this good? Is that bad? Asking these questions show that you want to be ruled and commanded by someone from outside. Ask "who am I?" to start getting guidance from inside you.”
“Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?”
“Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.”
Source: The House of Hades
“Is this hell, to be stuck in a continual loop of our greatest disappointments?
[Richelle Bach's diary]”
Source: The Christmas Promise
“Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.”
“Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.”
Source: I Was Here
“Is this how Julia Roberts' character feels like in Pretty Woman? Two parts princess, one part whore?”
Source: Asher Black
“Is this how we want to live our lives
Is this how we want to shape our archives
Angry and bitter from moments that left us empty
Forgetting why we ever thought it was a good decision
To get stuck tied down in the wrong kind of vision”
Source: Magical Maverick
“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.”
Source: Roots: The Saga of an American Family
“Is this, I wondered, why writing exists—as a proof against oblivion? And not just for the writer himself but also for all the others who swim in the depths where the sun of the culture never penetrates?”
“Is this it, Whit?” I whispered. He squeezed me and pressed his lips against mine lightly. “If it is, this where I want to be.”
Source: What the River Knows
“Is this just a polite way of saying you need time to recover from my flat?
I won't lie. It was fairly terrible. But there were some compensations.
Like what?
You.
I stared at the word for a really long time. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake.”
Source: Boyfriend Material
“Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?”
Source: Moonlight Cove
“Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?”
“Is this life? The thing we were all seeking since those afternoons after school, when we saw Friends on TV and dreamed that one day we would be all grown up and get coffee with friends and hang out on a couch in an apartment. Sometimes it seems like your father and I have spent not just years doing this but eons. An infinite amount of time spent unloading the dishwasher and waiting in line at the grocery store.”
Source: Tilt
“Is this love?' said the moon.
'You are not asking the right people,' said the stars.
'I have asked the sun, who burns,' said the moon. 'I have asked the clouds, who cover. I have asked the sky, who stays forever. I have asked the earth, who made me.'
'But have you asked the ocean, who loves you?' said the stars.
'Oh,' said the moon.
And so the moon went down to the ocean and asked, 'Is this love?'
And the ocean said, 'Yes.”
“Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?”
“Is this lox shmear?" Dahlia asks, opening the fancy gift bag I couldn't really afford but purchased anyway and pulling out the Mason jar packed with the pink spread.
"Crawfish spread," I say. "But I imagine it would go very nicely on a bagel, same as lox."
I am underplaying how delicious this stuff is. It's just poached crawfish tails blended in the Cuisinart with lots of butter and garlic, and a little cayenne pepper, but it's become my favorite thing in the world to eat. I serve it at the restaurant as an appetizer with toast points.”
Source: A Place at the Table
“Is this me?” he asked.
“Yep.”
He laughed. “And I’m eating cake in the picture.”
“A big piece,” I told him. “I figured if you can’t eat cake in real life, might as well get to in a drawing.”
Source: The Swift Boys & Me
“Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up?”
Source: Love and Shame and Love
“Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.”
“Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.”
“Is this my dream, or the truth?
O would that we had met
When I had my burning youth;
But I grow old among dreams,
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams.”
Source: The Wild Swans at Coole
“Is this my life?
I’m glad that I can write
I’m thankful for this life
And all the good it’s given me
But can I live like this forever?
Alone
Can I really be alone like this? Forever?
I can’t take it — actually that’s not true, that’s a lie
I’m fine on my own
It’s fine, but what about you
Am I really okay
Not knowing you? What if I regret it?
My child, unlike any other,
Can I really say I’m okay
Never knowing you?”
Source: Breasts and Eggs
“Is this my pale little elf? Is this my mustard-seed?”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?”
“Is this necessary?” I said, gesturing to the paint and clothing.
“Of course,” he said coolly. “How else would I know if anyone touches you?”
He approached, and I braced myself as he ran a finger along my shoulder, smearing the paint. As soon as his finger left my skin, the paint fixed itself, returning the design to its original form. “The dress itself won’t mar it, and neither will your movements,” he said, his face close to mine. His teeth were far too near to my throat. “And I’ll remember precisely where my hands have been. But if anyone else touches you—let’s say a certain High Lord who enjoys springtime—I’ll know.” He flicked my nose. “And, Feyre,” he added, his voice a caressing murmur, “I don’t like my belongings tampered with.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Is this neuro-bot really supposed to be her, this creature, this thing, compiled of the ghosts of human data, the replicas of their past?”
Source: Blood of Other Worlds
“Is this not enough?
This blessed sip of life
Is it not enough?
Staring down at the ground
Then complain and pray for more from above
Greedy little pig”
“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
“Is this not the very thing that drives an adventurous man to navigate uncharted oceans, to traverse continents and mountains, to pilot virgin estuaries and hidden coves—this promise of inscribing a name steadfast upon what he finds? There are few parcels of earth left to be claimed; yet even as the known world shrinks, the heavens grow ever more infinite. An explorer of the skies need never leave his home or fret over the swiftness of other expeditions; he might give whatever name he chooses to any new thing that wanders into his view.”
Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
“Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.”
“Is this nuclear physics or are you ordering a cake?
It's a cake. You eat it,,you don't frame it.”
Source: Shared Sorrows
“Is this okay?”
Dex blinked. Okay? She couldn’t have been any more
okay had she been dipped in marshmallow and rolled in coconut.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Is this one of those situations that involves "ethics"? 'Cause I'm a cat, you know. I've never been very good at those.”
Source: Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle
“Is this pain and despair that surround me a result of cancer, or has it just been released by cancer? I feel so unequal to what I always handled before, the abominations outside that echo the pain within.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“Is this place called Virgins? Well, I shouldn't be here! -Nina”
“Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?”
Source: The Privilege of the Sword
“Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into the collar. "I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose." I wrap the jacket around Caleb's shoulders and fasten one of the buttons over his chest. He avoids my eyes. "I think it's a new phenomenon.", I say.”
“Is this reality or a dream?" she whispered.
"Being with you has always been a dream."
For some reason, the words made her inexplicably sad.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?”
“Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?”