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 life is this powerful river, of doing laundry and buying groceries and driving to work and scrolling on my phone, and the weekends are so short.”
Source: Tilt
“It's like looking at a scalloped picture, frayed at the edges. Everything blends in the background, and she stands out.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“It's like making fire: you can wait for a lightening strike or you can pull out two sticks and do the work of creation.”
“It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.”
Source: A Fine and Private Place
“It’s like milking a cow. The table gets antsy if it goes too long without feeding people. And we’ll have to touch it anyway, to clean it.” Anjali lifted the lid of a dish. A savory smell, heavy on cabbage, filled the room. “Want to start with the sausages or the potatoes?”
“Sausages, definitely,” said Marc.
“Okay . . .” She lifted more lids and poked around with a fork. “You can have blutwurst, zervelatwurst, bockwurst, plockwurst, leberwurst, knackwurst, and, of course, bratwurst. And what’s this? Weisswurst, I think.”
“Some of each, please,” said Marc.
Anjali handed him a plate piled with wursts. “What about you, Elizabeth?”
“Um, I’m not crazy about sausage—maybe just some potatoes?”
“Okay,” said Anjali. “Kartoffelbällchen, kartoffeltopf, kartoffelkroketten, kartoffelbrei, kartoffelknödel, kartoffelkrusteln, kartoffelnocken, kartoffelpuffer, kartoffelklösse, or kartoffelschnitz? Or maybe some schmorkartoffeln? Or just plain fries?”
“I don’t know—surprise me.”
“Here. Überbackene käsekartoffeln, my favorite. It has cheese.”
“Thanks.” It was delicious and very rich—tender potato slices, with a creamy cheese sauce. “How do you know all those names?” I asked.
“I looked them up. I wanted to know what we were eating.” Anjali peered under more lids.
“You know Anjali—she loves to look things up. Any spätzle?” asked Marc.
“What’s spätzle?”
“Sort of a cross between homemade pasta and dumplings,” said Anjali. “Oh, here’s hasenpfeffer! I love hasenpfeffer!”
“What’s hasenpfeffer?”
“Stewed rabbit with black pepper.” She dished herself a plate. “Mmmm! Don’t tell my parents—we’re vegetarians at home.”
Source: The Grimm Legacy
“It's like my Dad always used to say: "Interactive gimmicks are better than sleepcooking gimmicks." He didn't say that all the time, but he was alive for a long time and he talked a lot. That assemblage of words probably found its way out of his mouth.”
Source: What's On the Menu?
“It's like my mom and dad created a whole new world for themselves. I live in their new world. But they understand the old world, the world they came from—and I don't. I don't belong anywhere. That's the problem.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“It’s like one of the greatest questions in the universe, right? What came first—the booze or the blues? Hell if I know.”
Source: A Guitar Named Swampy: A Novel
“It's like one of those summer nights with your friends by the ocean. You're drinking straight from the bottle, singing the memories of the best years and for just that night you're infinite. You're exactly where you're supposed to be. There is no future. You have earned the present.
And I'm taking trains to nowhere, hoping to be able to hold on to these few moments on stage every night. And I'm thinking that I'm me,
and this very moment,
I'm actually okay with that.”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“It's like panning for gold – got to sift through a lot of mud to find those precious nuggets”
Source: Clickonomics: How to Win Customers and Influence People on the Internet
“It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.”
“It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.”
Source: Please Don't Tell
“It's like people want me to be this version of a person that isn't me. Like, always ready to fight and march and rally, and I don't even get to be myself.”
Source: Anger Is a Gift
“It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.”
Source: To Be Sung Underwater
“It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?”
Source: The Long Walk
“It's like raking leaves in the wind.”
“It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a chair here, a picture frame there. Items that were once brand new were suddenly broken in and worn from age. It was all very subtle, but enough to suspect paranormal activity or a cruel practical joke. When no one else saw what you saw, the freak factor really kicked in, because you were singled out and left questioning reality." ~Ellia”
Source: Keep Me In Mind
“It's like Romeo & Juliet,' I say. 'You can't separate them. Otherwise, there would be no Shakespeare.'
Silence.
I decide to be more straightforward. I tell him, 'Nothing frightens me anymore. I am not even afraid to die.'
Bussey's eyes, already wide open, grow even wider. My death is the last thing he needs.
I have the strange feeling that there are two of me. One observes the conversation while the other does the talking. Everything is abnormal, especially this extreme calm that has taken me over. I try to explain to Bussey that if I decide to die, it will be without bitterness. I know I did everything I possibly could, so it will be respectful farewell. I will bow to life like an actor, who, having delivered his lines, bends deeply to his audience & retires. I tell Bussey that this decision has nothing to do with him, that it is entirely mine. I will choose either to live or to die, but I cannot allow myself to live in the in-between. I do not want to go through life like a ghost.
'Do you think you'll find Danny this way?' Bussey asks.
My mind sifts through all available theories on the afterlife. It is as if this metaphysical question has become as real as the air we breathe. Buddhism teaches that life is an eternal cycle without beginning or end. I recall the metaphor: "Our individual lives are like waves produced from the great ocean that is the universe. The emergence of a wave is life, and its abatement is death. This rhythm repeats eternally."
Finally I answer Bussey, 'No, I don't think so.'
Bussey seems relieved, but I'm more panicky, because I had never thought that I could wind up alone. In my mind, whatever the odds, Danny & I were & would be together forever.”
Source: A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
“It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automatically erased or invalidated by the lows.”
Source: Counting the Cost
“It’s like saying you’re fixed in the past, and
you’re running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of
something new”
Source: The Promise of Stardust
“It’s like seeing red every day, it’s beautiful, but so are yellow, green and pink, and black. One day it’ll hit you that you were an orange person, but you had to eat apples all your life because you never looked beyond that.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“It’s like selling people the American Dream and then telling them they can’t afford it.”
Source: Spares
“It's like she has her heart in her hand and it's broken. She's holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it's my heart.”
Source: Façade
“It's like she has some sort of captivating fire in her eyes. Sometimes she'll look at me and I feel like she's staring into my soul, reading everything I'm trying to keep hidden.”
Source: But She Is My Student
“It's like she's pulling Post-it notes out of her hair and lecturing from them, one of my peers once complained about the teaching style of my beloved teacher Mary Ann Caws. ...Ditto Eileen Myles, who tells a great story about a student at UC San Diego once complaining that her lecturing style was like 'throwing a pizza at us.' My feeling is, you should be so lucky to get a pizza in the face from Eileen Myles, or a Post-it note plucked from the nest of Mary Ann Caws's hair.”
Source: The Argonauts
“It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It's like Sheriff Daniels sneezed, and they all caught the misinformation flu.”
Source: The Unholy Cause
“It's like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase themselves.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“It's like some part of me is always with you" she said. I looked at the sky and smiled.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“It's like some part of me is always with you" she said.
I looked into her eyes and smiled.”
“It's like someone took the darkness of the universe and put it into your eyes...
You became a slave to the monsters living in you.
You were light, but now you allow it be seen.”
“It's like something he assumed was just a painted backdrop all his life has revealed itself to be real: foreign cities are real, and famous artworks, and underground railway systems, and remnants of the Berlin Wall. That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
Source: Normal People
“It's like something in a fairy-tale," she complained to Pamela. "You are given a fairy palace, but when you try to go to it mountains of glass are set before you and you can't reach it”
Source: Penny Plain
“It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole.”
Source: The Day of the Owl
“It's like suggesting we put seat belts on all the chairs in a library - both safe, just in very different ways!”
“It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap”
Source: The Water Dancer
“It’s like that door you find one day,
way at the back of your closet.
And then you go into the closet
and turn the knob and open it.
And outside there it is:
the immense Caribbean.
And you can’t believe it.
You’ve lived here for so
long and you never knew
that all this was right here
the whole time.”
“It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?”
Source: White Teeth
“It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.”
Source: Wilder Girls
“It's like the Bible says: The
last shall be first and the first shall be last, and the rest will be stuck in the middle.”
“It's like the commercial, "Once you pop you can't stop." Once you pop a pill, you can't stop. They have you hooked and they know it. Like a drug dealer, they are so happy they have won another loyal customer. Not loyal because you want to be, but loyal because your body is now completely dependent on them and their legal prescription "drugs."”
Source: A Christian Look at Psychology Topics
“It's like 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 has 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. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
“It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him.”
Source: Before I Fall
“It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“It's like the old question, "Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what's inside?" Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside, undesirable things from happening, or to preserve and maintain what is inside: the delicate and sensitive ability to have and maintain an intimate relationship.”
Source: Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore: Love, Marriage and the Art of Intimacy
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happier if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't really work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“It's like the poets say,
We end up mirroring those we love,
Maybe...
You ended up an amalgamation of my mistakes,
like the ones I've done over and over again
And I'm sorry mi amor,
But again, I only need the password to your
heart,
Then maybe, just maybe,
I can figure this all out.
(I say this, as I lay in front of your grave
Let me move on, love
I'm tired.)
-Extracted from
Apathetic Eyes, a Poem”
“It's like the song of a family where everything's always all right, it's a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it's a song that'll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that's broken, it fixes.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“It’s like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs.”
Source: The Leftovers