I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It didn't last. She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey. Nuts, too. That's why I'm here. There's a filthy beverage you drink for breakfast instead of coffee. I thought not, so I cleared out.”
Source: The Unfinished Clue
“It didn’t make sense how someone I used to be so close with could suddenly pretend that I didn’t exist.”
Source: A Most Important Year
“It didn't matter.
Carson wasn’t the one for me. He wasn’t even the one for right now. My life would hopefully have its great love story but this wasn't it. It would happen in D.C. in the next four years or it would happen in Africa, if I ever got there, or in Sienna or, for all I knew, Kentucky or Timbuktu.
Life was long.
And people only really had great love affairs in high school in the movies. And maybe during world wars. But this was not a movie and not a war, even if it sometimes felt that way. It was only high school and it was almost over with anyway.”
Source: The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life
“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.
No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“It didn't matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions- Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”
Source: Defy Me
“It didn't matter how much he liked being Neil Josten. He'd stayed here too long as it was. Neil should be used to this by now. He'd spent the last eight years on the run, spinning lie after lie to leave a twisted trail behind him. Twenty-two names stood between him and the truth, and he knew what would happen if anyone finally connected the dots. Signing with a college team meant more than standing still. It meant he'd be stepping into a spotlight. [...]
The math was simple, but that didn't make this any easier. That contract was a one-way ticket to a future, something Neil could never have, and he wanted it so badly he ached.
For a blinding moment he hated himself for ever trying out for Millport's team. He'd known better than to step on a court. [...] But what else was he supposed to do? [...] This was the only thing he had left that was real. Now that he'd had a taste of it again, he didn't know how to walk away from it.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“It didn't matter how much they wanted each other
Today the stars too have decided there is no way
They could feel the most for each other....
No amount of distance
No amount of time
Totally different from each other
Yet so alike in certain ways
It seemed like it could be so perfect
What a fulfilling relationship it would be
But unfortunately
Their stars aren't aligned”
“It didn't matter how old you got, the finality of death never changed, and neither did the ideals of loyalty and duty and honor, things this punk had never understood.”
Source: Lucky Charms: 12 Crime Tales
“It didn’t matter how unaccented my English was. It didn’t matter that I told people, over and over again, that I was born here, in America, that English was my first language, that my cousins in Iran made fun of me for speaking mediocre Farsi with an American accent—it didn’t matter. Everyone assumed I was fresh off the boat from a foreign land.”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“It didn't matter how wonderful Andrew was and how much effort he was prepared to put into their relationship. While Lou didn't feel the same way, his love was only building a tower without foundations.”
Source: Getting Personal
“It didn't matter if he stayed forever cursed. All that mattered was that he stayed, that he chose her instead of fear.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“It didn't matter if the gods found me unworthy because I was worthy of this- of laughter and excitement, of happiness and anticipation, of safety and acceptance, of pleasure and experience, of everything Hawke made me feel. And he was worthy of whatever consequences came from this because this wasn't just about him. I knew that from the moment I'd asked him to stay.
It was about me.
What I wanted.
My choice.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“It didn't matter in the least what Julian thought of him, it didn't matter what anyone else thought of him, all that mattered was what Courtenay thought of himself.”
Source: The Ruin of a Rake
“It didn't matter that he was a coward. Cowards knew how to flee and hide, and that was good enough.”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“It didn't matter that I felt like a fool 'cause I forgot when she walked through the door.”
“It didn't matter that she was one of his best friend's cousins, or that she was a decade younger than him, or that he knew he'd likely get burned by her. He wanted to taste her again and this time he wasn't going to stop at kissing. Not unless she told him to.”
Source: Secret Obsession
“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic.”
Source: Wings
“It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.”
Source: How (Not) to Fall in Love
“It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me.”
Source: The Education of Caroline
“It didn’t rise like a love song.
It rose like a memory that refused to die.
No longer a whisper—
but a vow.
Declared into the vastness of the universe.
Each note struck like a heartbeat—
sure, steady, full of fire.
As though it had learned loss, and joy, and longing—
and returned bearing all of it,
just to lay it at her feet.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“It didn’t scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story.”
“It didn’t seem fair for a man to morn someone, abundantly, that he had loved, so miserly.”
Source: Razorblade Tears
“It didn’t seem like they were here to find food. Nor did they have the patience to bite anyone. Left to themselves, they’d quickly haul to particles of mud and built nests here and there in the house. You could try scuttling them with a broom, but they’d get into a mad frenzy and climb up the broom and on to your arm. Before you knew it, they’d be all over you, even under your clothes. For days on end there would be a terrific invasion, and then one day you would wake up to find them gone. There was no telling why they came, where they went. I sometimes saw them racing in lines along the window sills in the front room, where there was nothing to eat. Perhaps they were on a mission of some sort, only passing through our house in self-important columns. But not once did I see the trail of a column, an ant that had no other ants behind it.”
Source: Ghachar Ghochar
“It didn’t seem possible to gain so much happiness from so little.”
Source: The Sword Thief
“It didn’t seem right that this should be the place to find out she was going to die.”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“It didn’t seem to matter how many boundaries I’d put in place or how much I’d grown in self-discipline. As I found myself acting in a way that grieved me to watch, I had to admit that I wouldn’t be doing this if part of me didn’t want it. The very fact I was doing it showed this is what I really wanted. How could I both hate something and want something at the same time?”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“It didn’t seem to matter whether the goals I set were constructive or destructive, both led to cycles that felt like hamster wheels with occasional treats. The constructive goals like careers, vacations, degrees, adventures, luxury and status seemed just as futile as the destructive goals like drinking, drugging, sexing, relationships, and partying. None of them brought lasting objective and subjective meaning to life. At best, they gave a temporary blip of euphoria before they faded into obscurity.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“It didn't seem to matter whether the previous day had been good or bad; the sun would always rise the next morning.”
“It didn't stop her from pretending, though. Imagining for a moment she could have a life like Harry's. Where your world was whatever you made of it and whoever you let into it and you were allowed to be happy with that.”
Source: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
“It didn’t take him thirty seconds to have a swig of vodka and a hefty sniff before his hands were as steady as a bloke with his bollocks caught in a zip”
Source: Steel Dogs
“It didn't take long for her to help him remove his armor.
She gestured to the pallet. "Lie down."
"Not yet." He pulled her into his arms and held her against his chest. This is what he was fighting for. Not just for himself, but for all men to hold their women in their arms - and to raise families free from tyranny.”
Source: Rise of a Legend
“It didn't take long to understand that there was no recipe or equation. Parenting was a river of moment-by-moment decisions, intuitions, a balancing of one's own needs, which did factor in somehow, with those of the child. But mostly it was being there, truly there, with all your senses. Trusting the heart knowledge that arises with full attention.”
Source: What Comes After
“It didn’t take me long to settle into my new life as a beach bar owner in paradise. Truthfully, it wasn’t a demanding career. Trust me when I say that serving rum drinks to girls in tiny bikinis isn’t that big of a chore.”
Source: Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road
“It didn’t talk about pretty lights, love, or shiny stars, but when he called me kid, it felt like somebody grabbed my hand and pulled me out of my OCD cycle. It was soothing, it was freedom. It was so weird. I felt like I had known him for years. I had become so weak from the inside that even the slightest word of comfort blew this intense emotion in me.
— Arya Kashyap”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“It didn’t taste quite so offensive as last time—but perhaps that was because so many of her taste buds had committed ritual suicide following the apocalyptic breakfast.”
Source: Tress of the Emerald Sea
“It didn't work," said the King. "The cloak of invisibility didn't work."
"Yes, it did," said the Royal Wizard.
"No, it didn't," said the King. "I kept bumping into things, the same as ever."
"The cloak is supposed to make you invisible," said the Royal Wizard. "It is not supposed to keep you from bumping into things."
"All I know is, I kept bumping into things," said the King.”
Source: Many Moons
“It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.”
“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.”
Source: Silence
“It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.”
“It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.”
“It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.”
“It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.”
“It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.”
“It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.”
“It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.”
“It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.”