I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?”
“Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.”
“Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.”
“Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.”
“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?”
“Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.”
“Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.”
“Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.”
Source: Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel
“Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?”
“Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.”
“Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?”
“Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.”
“Isnt it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youre with some other ones Its stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!”
“Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?”
Source: Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe
“Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.”
“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction
“Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?”
“Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?”
“Isn’t he gorgeous?” With those rolls, the wet-sounding grunts, bulbous wiggly tail, and smashed face—not to mention the fart the dog let out once he situated himself—he was gorgeous in a way that only a parent could appreciate.”
“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
“Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?”
“Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
“Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.”
“Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?”
Source: SHOGUN
“Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?”
“Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love?
The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant being. You are divine. And you are awesome. The sooner you start embracing that and treating yourself accordingly, the sooner your life will begin to unfold with compassion, purpose, ease, health, and vitality.”
“Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?”
“Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?”
“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”
Source: Ender's Shadow
“Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.”
Source: Between the Lines
“Isn’t that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would’ve thought that a man with your powers would be past the urge to compensate.” Barabas grinned. “I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus,” Saiman said dryly. “Thank you for reminding me.” “Always happy to oblige.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in the woods? … Isn’t there a bird or covey that somehow always manages to catch you with your gun on safe — even when you know it’s there? “I think we all know times that for almost certain we gave the hunt to the quarry.”
“Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?”
“Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
“Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Isobe... I think your cumming face is the cutest.”
Source: A Girl on the Shore
“Isobel fell apart so many times that time itself ignored her.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“Isobel: Got water on my phone.
Spade: You better not be back in the fucking lake.
Isobel: The shower.
Spade: Alone?
Isobel: …
Spade: What?
Isobel: Why would you ask that?
Spade: To gather information.
Isobel: Why?
Spade: …
Isobel: What?”
Source: Plier
“Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.
Expect...he didn't anymore.”
Source: Oblivion
“Isobel has no magic, but she has control, and that is magic enough.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“Isobel’s face burned. Her skin tingled where he’d touched her, with an almost imperceptible electricity that she couldn’t be sure if she was imagining. Like the tips of her fingers had somehow fallen asleep.”
“Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.”
“Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“Isolate it, reflect on it, recuperate.”
Source: In Limbo
“Isolated and limited vision problem.”
“Isolated beauty ends up simpering; solitary justice ends up oppressing.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays