I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It occurred to me as scandalous that Palmer and Antonia, after the scene in which I had taken part in the drawing-room, should have gone out to the opera. Antonia ought to have been waiting for me to come back. I resented this indifference to the tempo of my own drama.”
Source: A Severed Head
“It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.”
“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
“It occurred to me how often I pounced on a silver-lining meaning when faced with coincidences”
Source: Loved One
“It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.”
“It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.”
“It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.”
Source: The Stranger
“It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.”
Source: The Secret Mandarin
“It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.”
“It occurred to me that Australians are so surrounded with danger that they have evolved an entirely new vocabulary to deal with it.”
“It occurred to me that both Maria and I were on the run in the twenty-first century, just like George Sand whose name was also Amantine was on the run in the nineteenth century, and Maria whose name was also Zama was looking for somewhere to recover and rest in the twentieth. We were on the run from the lies concealed in the language of politics from myths about our character and our purpose in life. We were on the run from our own desires too probably, whatever they were.”
Source: Things I Don't Want to Know
“It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.”
“It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.”
Source: White Noise
“It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.”
“It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.”
Source: It Chooses You
“It occurred to me that for a long time I tried not to write about my own backyard and my home. I suppose I was selfishly keeping it to my self. And in doing so, I was never able to get out into this incredible wilderness area - by the way, I live right at the edge of the most incredible wilderness area probably in the northern hemisphere.”
“It occurred to me that grief is like a tunnel. You enter it without a choice because you must get to the other side. The darkness of it plays tricks on you and sometimes you can even forget where you are or what your purpose is. I believe that people, now and again, get lost or stuck in that tunnel and never find their way out.”
Source: Empire Girls
“It occurred to me that he shouldn’t be saying ‘we’ since nothing that I knew of had been taken from him… He doesn’t mind this, I thought. He doesn’t mind at all. Maybe he even likes it. We are not each others’ anymore. Instead, I am his.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“It occurred to me that I’d packed at least nine or ten books, but not a single pair of socks.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.”
“It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.”
“It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn't another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.”
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.”
“It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.”
“It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.”
Source: The Lake
“It occurred to me that losing one thing is way more difficult than losing everything, you noticed?”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“It occurred to me that Mr. Whitmore seemed to have no doubts about my ability to take part in this mission. I was, to him, a competent and required presence. Not a worthless, overbearing spinster or deficient female. Was this how men felt all the time? This intrinsic acceptance of one’s significance? No wonder they walked through life expecting so much as their due.”
Source: The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
“It occurred to me that my cheek was probably right over his tattoo. Without thinking, I lifted my face and tugged at the neckline of his T-shirt. This time, the stark black-and-gold mark wasn't hidden. No need for that spell anymore, I guess. Still, I covered it with my palm. Archer's hands clutched reflexively on my waist. Our eyes met. "It doesn't burn this time," I whispered.
His breathing was ragged. "Beg to differ, Mercer.”
Source: Demonglass
“It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.”
“It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.”
Source: The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.”
“It occurred to me that so often in life, as we move around the stage set of this world, we feel as if we are trying to create a sense of truth about what we do. We use rituals and dates, and we imbue events with significance, all as part of our desperate attempt to make life feel real. But perhaps the only real is our private communion with a personal sense of meaning?”
“It occurred to me that some people couldn't handle too much love. That everyone loves as they're able, but more, they are loved as they're able. Some are indomitable and open, like an ocean, but others aren't made to tread those waves, cannot stay afloat those waters. We embrace the kind of love we can manage. Less can be the right measure. But when it isn't, we must learn we cannot squeeze a mountain into a room with a glass ceiling. Or everything shatters.”
“It occurred to me that the glow in that night's sky had perhaps signalled the last of the deaths that had been happening around me.
People had died in that light. Died in an instant, I didn't doubt.
I had the feeling that I finally understood what the series of deaths had been trying to tell me. The light of heat, of energy. My body was fully endowed with heat and energy. I couldn't help but see myself standing there last night, transfixed by the glowing red sky, never sparing the approach of death a thought.”
Source: Territory of Light
“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“It occurred to me that the whole of art--maybe the whole of life--is just spray-painting your name on a wall, hoping that someone will see it after you've gone. And kids are to make sure that there's someone around who'll remember you when you're not around anymore.”
Source: Death: The Time of Your Life
“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”
“It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.”
Source: Forever
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
“It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!”
“It occurred to me that we get to know even the people we love in little ways over a long period of time.”
Source: Secrets in the Attic
“It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.”
Source: Free Admission
“It occurred to me that when a person chooses certain behaviors, they have complete, 100% control over their choices. But once the behavior is chosen, therein lies the extent of the effects of that choice. One has 0% control over what happens to them or to their body as a result of that choice. You can choose how you respond to the consequences, but control is relinquished. Choose carefully!”
“It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!”
“It occurred to me then, like one of those moments I’d remember years from now . . . the crisp November air, the amber-colored field lights so bright they eclipsed the moon. The electricity of the win suffusing every breath, every cell, every particle of the world that was Vanquer, Texas . . .
Everyone has a story.”
Source: Chasing Headlines
“It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.”
Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“It occurred to me then that identity is a hierarchy. We are primarily one thing, and then we're primarily another, and then another, and so on, until death- in succession. Each new identity assumes the throne of Self, but takes us further from our original self, perhaps our core self- the child. Yes, evolution, maturation, the path towards wisdom, it's all natural and healthy, but there's a purity to childhood, which is diluted with each iteration.”
Source: Spare