I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)”
“It stirs up envy, fame does.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.”
“It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.”
Source: Caged in Darkness
“It stopped now. If he didn't have honor, he had nothing. No more deception. No more shady strategies. No more rationalization. From now on he'd live honestly, and if he ended up as a beggar, at least he'd be a decent one.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.”
Source: The Roof Was Never Empty: A Haunting Metaphysical Horror About Family Secrets, Doppelgangers, and the Roof That Watches
“IT STOPS HERE. WITH ME AND YOU. IT ENDS WITH US”
Source: It Ends with Us
“It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.”
“It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.”
“It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.”
“It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.”
“It strikes her again, how many of a child’s fears are just rational responses to the facts of everyday experience.”
Source: The Dreamers
“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”
“It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.”
“It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.”
“It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.”
“It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.”
Source: The World As I See It
“It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.”
“It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.”
“It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.”
“It strikes me funny that at the end of life, it doesn’t matter what uniform we wore.”
Source: The Long March Home
“It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.”
“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.”
Source: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
Source: American Psycho
“It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.”
Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution
“It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our case, nobody has taken the trouble of writing down the grammar; we get it as a baby does from parents, by imitation of others. Some mathematicians have a good ear; some not (and some prefer the slangy expressions such as 'iff'). That's life.”
“It strikes me that money can alleviate many of the miseries of common folk, but it opens up other avenues of suffering”
Source: The Downstairs Girl
“It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.”
Source: Astro City: Life in the Big City (New Edition)
“It strikes me that the people who crowded around to help midwife St. Lydia's into being all had something in common. Each had the gift of seeing something that was coming, but had not yet arrived. Rachel could take a scrap of possibility--the rope that hung limp from a bucket--and notice that it was beautiful. Pastor Phil had the same gift, only he saw possibility in people. He was the kind of pastor who saw something true about you before you could see it yourself... This capacity--in an artist, a pastor, a parent, a prophet--is deeply tied to the work of God.”
Source: For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World
“it strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September's end and fell like an early leaf.”
Source: Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts
“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.”
Source: Mister Creecher
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
“It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.”
Source: Cherry
“It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.”
“It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago."
"The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'"
"Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammunition."
"Brother," said Colomba, in a serious voice, "you are master here, and everything in this house belongs to you. But I warn you that I will give this little girl my mezzaro, so that she may sell it; rather than refuse powder to a bandit.”
Source: Colomba
“It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.”
Source: Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory
“It struck cold awe to my heart,
now, to look at who I had been
who had thought it was impossible
that he or I could touch another.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”
Source: Back when We Were Grownups: A Novel
“It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)”
“It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all.”
“It struck her that admiration, for all its Austenian overtones, was actually a crucial element of desire.”
Source: Flirting in Cars
“It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him.”
Source: Brooklyn
“It struck her then, as if someone had said it aloud: her mother was dead, and the only thing worth remembering about her, in the end, was that she had cooked. Marilyn thought uneasily of her own life, of hours spent making breakfasts, serving dinners, packing lunches into neat paper bags. How was it possible to spend so many hours spreading peanut butter across bread?”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.”
“It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself”
Source: About a Boy
“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four
“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.”
Source: 1984