I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It beautifies beautiful if beauty beautifully prevails with a certified character of beautification.”
“It became a bit of a challenge to make an album that is essentially quite alternative sounding, and has a lot of sounds that could be guitar - for instance on "Overjoyed," there's what sounds like guitar but is actually a lot of keys.”
“It became a domino effect, as infected people took foolish risks, knowing full well they could spread the virus.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.”
“It became a game that I took to with immense gusto: to see how much I could remember about dandelions themselves, or picking wild grapes with my father and brother, rediscovering the mosquito-breeding ground rain barrel by the side bay window, or searching out the smell of the gold-fuzzed bees that hung around our back porch grape arbor. Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.”
Source: Collected Prose
“It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression”
“It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”
“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.”
“It became a routine: after feeding the cows and hogs, he’d wrap himself up in scarped and don another sweater and then retreat upstairs with his paints and paper. On the coldest days, he’d come down every half hour or so to let his fingers thaw out. Then he’d go back upstairs to continue this work that no one had asked for, work that he did only because there was a part of him that was tuned to the frequency of beauty rather than of usefulness…”
Source: Rebellion
“It became all the more obvious that people--no matter their age or what brought them to that place--grieve in different ways and on different timetables.”
Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is
“It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.”
“It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.”
“It became by mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made today that will make the difference for their rest of their lives.”
“It became clear that I would have to mend myself and if I couldn't then I would at least learn how to pretend.”
Source: Borderline: A Poetic Memoir
“It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?”
“It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves...Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others.”
“It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.”
Source: Only One Year
“It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.”
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“it became clearer that if there was any doubt in my mind about leaving my job, it had to be set aside.”
Source: Sometimes it's your workplace: "A toxic workplace doesn't end at the office ,it follows you into every part of your life."
“It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.”
Source: Living In God's Power
“It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.”
“It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.”
“It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles” became prevalent after its use in my first State of the Union address. Nice ring to it.”
Source: The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
“It became inescapable that as conservatives were wrong about people of color, they were also wrong about women. They were wrong about gay people. The only individual freedoms they seemed to get exercised about were the freedom to make a profit and the freedom to own a gun.”
“It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."”
“It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities." She stared. "What sort of private activities?" This time he did smile, and it turned his face wicked. "Disrobe, and I'll be happy to demonstrate.”
“It became known that someone good at interpreting the star movements had the gift of Prophecy. At the time, it was understood that this original form of Prophecy did not pertain to future human activity. The Gift of Prophecy pertained to understanding future movements of celestial entities.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“It became legend that no one should wander too close to the sorceress's enchanted forest or she would send forth a blizzard, causing them to lose their way and be caught in the land of ice and snow for all time.”
Source: Snow Maiden
“It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.”
“It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.”
“It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.”
Source: Peer Mentorship in High School: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing a Successful Peer Mentorship Program in Your School
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
“It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.”
“It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.”
“It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.”
“It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But as a home for Jesus Himself in the Blessed Sacrament. Cathedrals house Jesus. Christians merely come and visit Him. The cathedrals and churches architecturally prepare our souls for the beauty of the Eucharist.”
Source: Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church
“It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.”
“It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.”
“It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.”
“It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.”
Source: Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
“It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.”
“It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.”
“It became very important for me to stand up and design with a conscience for environment, you know? Just because you like clothes doesn't mean that you have to throw your principles out the window.”
“It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive.”
Source: Growing Up American
“It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own”
“It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy”
“It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.”
“It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen.”
“It becomes a lot easier to understand people when you realize that not everyone wants or is after the same thing.”
Source: The Little Book of Big Quotes: Volume I