I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I cried when Mario Gotze told me hell leave Borussia Dortmund & join Bayern Munich”
“I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.”
“I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.”
“I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.”
“I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.”
“I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.”
“I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.”
“I cringe every time republican senators say, "our Democratic friends." Chuck Schumer, if he is your friend, it's a problem. I mean, it shouldn't be, but we know it is.”
“I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.”
“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”
“I cringe when I watch myself on TV.”
“I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.”
Source: Biting Nixie
“I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.”
“I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.”
“I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.”
Source: History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
“I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.”
“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.”
“I criticize my own work pretty harshly.”
“I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.”
“I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.”
“I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.”
“I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.”
“I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.”
“I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine; I'll prosecute him one day and he'll be sentenced to life without parole…with me.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He furrows his eyebrows and touches the corner of my bruised eye with his fingertips. My head jerks back, but he doesn't take his hand away. Instead he sighs. "You know, if you could just learn to attack first, you might do better." "Attack first?" I say. "How will that help?" "You're fast. If you can get a few good hits in before they know what's going on, you could win." He shrugs, and his hand falls.”
“I cross out words so you will see them more”
Source: Basquiat
“I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.”
Source: Basquiat
“I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.”
“I cross the street and walk into the Printemps. I go to the counter with necklaces and bracelets and earrings, which dazzle me always. I stand like a fascinated savage. Glitter. Amethyst. Turquoise. Shell pink. Irish green. I would like to be naked and cover myself in cold crystal jewelry. Jewelry and perfume.”
Source: Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I crossed my arms. "Pray, be more specific, maestro," I said. "I'm afraid we rustic peasants have not your worldly experience." Grumbles from the audience, and their pointed daggers of curiosity were aimed at Master Antonius now.
"Liesl," Papa warned. "You overreach yourself."
"No, no, Georg," the old violinist said. "The young lady has a point." He smirked. "True genius is not just technical skill, yes? Any fool could learn to play all the right notes. It takes a certain... passion and brilliance to bring the notes together to say something true. Something real."
I nodded in agreement. "Then if true genius is performance and ability and passion," I said, not daring to look at Papa, "perhaps my brother was ill-served by the choice of music."
This piqued the old master's interest. He lifted his bushy brows, his dark eyes beady in his fleshy face. "So the little Fräulein fancies herself a better tutor than her father! Well, I am tickled. You amuse me, girl.”
Source: Wintersong
“I crossed seas, mountains to reach the home of my loved one. Yet I crossed my limitation, the fact I thought before I might not be able to do it. Yet I did it! And I am happy for it. It cured my prejudices, my fear and taught me few more things about humanity at its core.
- Write Like A Girl Anthology”
“I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Charles," he replied.”
Source: East
“I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.”
Source: A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien
“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I crossed the street without an arm to hold me back.”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“I crouch in the hollow beneath the tree, looking up at the spangled sky and the bright scythe of a moon.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I crouched down beside her bed and lightly touched her forehead. "Dont' worry, Nik. I'll never let you go. Never.”
Source: Neverfall
“I crown thee king of intimate delights,
Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness,
And all the comforts that the lowly roof
Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours
Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.”
“I crown you, small monarch of my bones,”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.”
Source: The Essays
“I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street”
“I crumple, my palm skating along the tree’s frozen face as I plop to the ground.
“Alyssa?” Morpheus crouches beside me in an instant. He catches my chin and forces me to look at him. “Are you feeling anemic again?”
I struggle to breathe. It grates inside my chest, like inhaling angry bees. Blood creeps into my throat and gags me.
Morpheus’s jeweled markings flash through an anxious kaleidoscope of colors.”
Source: Ensnared
“I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.”
Source: Need
“I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out," Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?”
“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”
“I cry a lot these days. I am a pool of sadness, and I wonder at its depth. I sometimes imagine a bottomless pit that I will fall into in this despair I feel. Is there a limit to sorrow?”
Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future