I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It shouldn't hurt to be a child.”
Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart
“It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.”
Source: Born in Ice
“It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.”
“It shouldn't matter what your sexual orientation is, you just need to be great at what you do. If you're an artist, be a great artist.”
“It shouldn't matter WHO you love; it should matter HOW you love. As long as you love someone with all your heart, than that's all that truly matters.”
“It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and manipulation, to try to divide political opinion within the United States, within any Western European country, or among NATO countries. That's one of the techniques that Russia has used for decades, during the Cold War and during the Putin era.”
“It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.”
Source: The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak
“It showed nothing. I'm not pregnant.”
“It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.”
“It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]”
Source: A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
“It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.”
“It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.”
“It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“It shows how unaccountable men are, what they harbour in their souls: which by no means shows on their faces.”
Source: The Mirror & the Light
“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.”
“It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.”
“It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.”
“It sickens me to admit this, but the divorce rate is the same for religious couples as it is for non-religious couples. Is it preposterous for us to think that we can love someone for a lifetime? Marriage is held together with such flimsy things--lace, promises and tolerance. We humans are so unskilled at sustaining intimacy. We begin with such high hopes, yet lose our way so quickly.
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Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.”
Source: My Wicked Marquess: Number 1 in series
“It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.”
“It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.”
“It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it.”
“It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.”
“It simply is not true that war never settles anything.”
“It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.”
Source: In Bed with a Highlander
“It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.”
“It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.”
“It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.”
“It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.”
“It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.”
“IT SLAPPED MY HAND. I’ve been rejected by the penis.”
Source: Dating Disasters of Emma Nash
“It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked”
“It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.”
“It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.”
“It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.”
“It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sight of her. But her face didn't look offended or amused. It almost looked as if she were studying the lines of my face, almost as if she were waiting.
I wanted to take her hand. I wanted to brush her cheek with my fingertips. I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing that I had seen in three years. The sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.
In that breathless second I almost asked her. I felt the question boiling up from my chest. I remember drawing a breath then hesitating--what could I say? Come away with me? Stay with me? Come to the University? No. Sudden certainty tightened in my chest like a cold fist. What could I ask her? What could I offer? Nothing. Anything I said would sound foolish, a child's fantasy.
I closed my mouth and looked across the water. Inches away, Denna did the same. I could feel the heat of her. She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain.
Neither of us spoke. I closed my eyes. The closeness of her was the sweetest, sharpest thing I had ever known.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“It smelled like a slaughterhouse. I was standing in the interrogation room of Saddam Hussein's Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. A stench of blood and death permeated my senses, my clothes, my being.”
Source: From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
“It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.”
“It smelled of baking cakes, which sent her back to the kitchen of her childhood, coming home from school to find her mother in the kitchen, making cookies... but it also smelled medicinal, and that made her think of being ill and being looked after when she was tucked in bed. Then there were spices, and a faint hint of Christmas---nutmeg, perhaps, and cloves---but underneath all of those was something else, something insidiously smooth and emollient, like vanilla or eucalyptus. She had a sudden memory of kissing her father's cheek as he bent to say good night, the rasp of his five-o'clock shadow and that smell... She had it now: it was the smell of his cologne, the smell of his business suits, the smell of her parents' bedroom and the big double bed and the terrifying, dark thought of what went on there. But after another moment she relaxed. There were comforting smells in there too: apples and brandy and crisp butter pastry and cinnamon.”
Source: The Food of Love
“It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.”
“It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle,"...”
Source: Swann’s Way
“It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill”
Source: Nowhere to Run
“It smells good in here”, Ostin said.
“It’s garlic the woman said, smiling. “Garlic always smells good. Except on your breath.”
“It smells like another woman here...”
Source: Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale
“It smells like heartbreak in here.' said Jace.
'That's the Chinese food.' Magnus threw himself onto the sofa and stretched out his long legs.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“It smells like... I think it's bile. Tooms must have taken it from his victims' livers.'
'Oh,' Mulder said. He sounded a little sick. 'Do you think there's any way I can quickly get it off my finger without betraying my cool exterior?'... Mulder hastily wiped his hand on the floor.”
Source: Squeeze
“It smells like strippers in here.”
Source: Lacking Evidence to the Contrary: A Lowbrow Novel of Questionable Necessity
“It smells of blood and honey, of sex and song.”
Source: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
“It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and loves that produce our courage.”
Source: Shantaram
“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces