I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“it’s like . . . finding a book inside another book. A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like . . . spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn. That’s what a kiss is like, he thought, no matter how brief: It’s a tiny, magical story, and a miraculous interruption of the mundane.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“It's like Finding Nemo." ( Constantine)
"How the hell is this anything like Finding Nemo? If anything it's like Mission Impossible."(Alexon)
"I have never seen this Impossible Mission and Nemo is cute." (Constantine)”
Source: Tidalwave
“It's like football. Two sides may each want to beat the other, they may even hate each other as sides, but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about, then they'd feel together. It's feeling that matters.”
Source: The Collector
“It’s like forever, always changing.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“It's like fårikål." Maya's tone is matter-of-fact recalling the traditional pungent dish of boiled cabbage and mutton with bone, seasoned with whole black peppercorns. "There's nothing better when you only get it once in a while. Seasonally. But if it were on your plate every day, you'd eventually start to lose your appetite for mutton. Sometimes the smell is enough. Or just the thought of it fills you up."
Lisbeth is not the only one grinning now, she knows Kat and Sina are picturing the same thing she is: a naked Steinar with twisted ram's horns covering his ears. His pointy nose quivering, sniffing boiled cabbage and peppercorns.”
Source: Pieces of Happiness
“It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.”
Source: Hope Was Here
“It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented.”
Source: One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
“It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.
I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“It’s like he can’t bear for me to be unhappy.
Or maybe it’s just that he doesn’t want to be unhappy.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“It's like he's got Tony Stark or S.H.E.I.L.D on the other end at that phone or something.”
Source: If You Change Your Mind
“It’s like he’s picking up parts of the world and showing them to me, saying, See? It’s beautiful.”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“It's like he's training you for battle or something." Her eyes lit up. "Hey, maybe he has some underground fight club and he's grooming you!"
"That's it, Steph. Definitely.”
Source: Embrace
“It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other and never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.”
Source: Before I Fall
“It's like holding a person in your arms and realizing they are an interlocking piece of a puzzle you hadn't known how to assemble. It's like staring into a dark and treacherous expanse, unsure of what awaits you but find comfort in the fact you won't have to face it alone.”
“It's like holding a story rather than a person; she feels wild and infinite in my arms.”
Source: To Kill a Kingdom
“It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?”
Source: Miles: The Autobiography
“It’s like how every guy I know has told me a story about going to Hooters and how the waitress seemed “grateful” to finally have a customer who was “cool and fun.” Definitely not bullshit!”
Source: Scrappy Little Nobody
“It's like how you could go through your entire life and never meet an unsuccessful parachutist. That didn't men they didn't exist. They did, but only for as long as it took gravity to prove an emphatic point from ten thousand feet.”
Source: Bloody Christmas
“It's like I am glimpsing the possibility of living in a different way. I wonder whether it would be an easier life - less choked with misunderstandings and disappointment.”
Source: Whisper
“It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons, nothing ordinary, and no normalcy. And then if you are to understand me, you have to step into my realm and leave all of those things behind. I'm not typical. I'm not ordinary. And I'm not normal. And I never will be . So I don't see the point of waking up in the morning and wishing to be so.”
“It's like...I can throw away my whole life trying to help somebody else, but i can only do something for me if I know it doesn't matter.”
Source: Ruins
“It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.”
Source: Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
“It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of this, so I can find things out and then I write about the things I find out so you can find them out from me. All the bruises, all the wounds, all the bumps on the head, all the scars, just so I can take that and I can write all these things, and sometimes I say "God, I don't want to be in this roller coaster anymore." But when I think about it, if I'm not right here, then where the hell would I be? On the sidewalk? I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky!”
“It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy”
Source: Nevada
“It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did.”
“It's like I have my very own standby mode and I can't do anything else until it's been turned off again; one phone call can wipe out an entire weekend.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“It's like I keep waiting to look in the mirror and recognize the person staring back.”
Source: At the Edge of the Universe
“It’s like I’m at a middle school dance. He slides his hands around my waist, and I loop my arms around his so-broad-they-should-be-illegal shoulders. Oh, tennis. Damn.
He shifts, and we begin to sway side to side. There’s no music, but the natural world outside is like a magical, real-life orchestra. The rustling grass sounds like the soft keys of a piano; the faraway cars thrum like the beat of a drum.”
Source: The Charmed List
“It's like I'm dreaming of the imaginary friend Katie and I had when we were little. She'd been so real to us as kids. We each remembered Anna, that's what we'd called her, just like we remembered bits of our parents. But now, in this dreamscape of Paradise Lost, our imaginary third twin has all grown up.”
Source: Twin Loyalties: From The Chronicles Of Tar Ponds City
“It's like, I'm scared and there're a lot of ugly things, but I'd rather be shipwrecked on this lovely island than safe in a sad, gray cell.”
Source: OCD Love Story
“It’s like ... I’m sitting on a chair with my hands resting on my legs, palms turned open to the sky. I have so little in me, but I would give you whatever I can. just … stay? a little? hold my hand? tell me something. Loneliness is so hard when you’re left in it.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“It’s like I’m suddenly a hormonally charged teenager or living in a bad romance novel: I suddenly can’t stop myself from noticing every man around me. Which means that Darcy, Samantha, and Michael are probably right. Plus, there was that disturbing dream about Voldemort this morning. I need to lose my gay-husband virginity before I lose my mind entirely. I need to find someone to sleep with me. And the fact that I don’t have the faintest idea how to make that happen is just further proof that it needs to.
—SINGLE-MINDED”
Source: Single-Minded
“It’s like I'm trapped in some kind of residual haunting." Rachel's eyes drifted back to the stain in the carpet. "Whenever I'm walking down a hallway, I swear, I hear steps behind me even though I know no one’s there. When I'm alone in my room, sometimes I feel like someone is standing right behind me.”
“It's like I'm trapped in this deep hole that I can't get out of.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“It’s like I’m trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn’t work. It’s stupid. I need both hands. So I guess I just have to spread out my arms and accept the bad with the good.”
“It's like I often say..."
"Greet every morning with a smile. That way it won't know what you're planning to do to it?"
"No, not that one."
"Until you know it ain't true, treat every woman like she has an older brother what is stronger than you are?"
"No, not...Wait, I said that?"
"Yes," Wax said, turning back to his notes. "It was a very chivalrous moment for you."
"Rusts. I should really write these things down.”
Source: Shadows of Self
“It's like I tell people at my stand-up shows: by making me a bitch, you have given me my freedom, the freedom to say and do things I couldn't do if I was "a nice girl" with some sort of stupid, goody-two-shoes image to keep up. Things that require courage. Things that require balls. Things that need to be done. By making me a bitch, you have freed me from the trite, sexist, bourgeois prison of "likeability." Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people.”
Source: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
“It’s like I’ve always had a painted musical sound track playing background to my life. I can almost hear colors and smell images when music is played. Mom loves classical. Big, booming Beethoven symphonies blast from
her CD player all day long. Those pieces always seem to be bright blue as I listen, and they smell like fresh paint. Dad is partial to jazz, and every chance he gets, he winks at me, takes out Mom’s Mozart disc, then pops in a CD of Miles Davis or Woody Herman. Jazz to me sounds brown and tan, and it smells like wet dirt.”
Source: Out of my mind
“It’s like I've been walking through a minefield blindfolded, and the explosions are starting to catch up with me.
The shrapnel of my own stupidity and selfishness raining down on my head.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“It’s like I’ve got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I’ve got a lifetime pass.”
Source: Postcards From the Edge
“It's like I've landed in the most perfect place in the universe. And then it blows up.”
Source: Ten Things I Hate about You
“It’s like I’ve walked into the fucking Twilight Zone,” she murmured…”
Source: Dark Protector
“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was, before so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine all the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances to turn back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding onto something...There's some good in this world. And it's worth fighting for.”
“It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.”
Source: The Two Towers
“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“It's like it doesn't even matter if I like my body, because there's always someone there to remind me I shouldn't.”
Source: Leah on the Offbeat
“It's like Kahlil Gibran wrote in The Prophet: 'Your children are not your children. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”
Source: What Happened
“It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do.”
Source: The Stone Heart
“it's like kissing a boy, finally, a boy”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson