I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about”
Source: Matterhorn
“It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.”
Source: Sex and rage: advice to young ladies eager for a good time : a novel
“It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!”
“It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were confused with the things that probably hadn't. And every day everything in her whole past life - the real things and the imaginary things - was being pushed farther and farther back, because going to high school was so enormous, so vast! so different from all of Eleanor's life before. The milling crowds in the hall between classes, all those jostling elbows and swollen shoulders and bosoms, all those enormous hands and feet, they pushed and thumped and shoved at Eleanor's childhood, until there was no room anymore for anything but now, right now, a hurrying rushing now that was just incredibly thrilling, or absolutely rotten and just disgusting, this heaving present moment, right now.”
Source: The Fledgling
“It was all chaos, confusion and dust,
Head and eyes were flecked with blood,
Rocks crash through with a roar,
Among stupefying shrieks,
The Mongol Kalmak proceed.
Oshpur the shepherd lord
Scouts with eagle eyes
In search of the forty sons -
Smoke obscures.
Entering the fray,
Smoke-maned Manas is a panther
Loping toward his prey.”
“It was all cheese and applause.”
Source: Widdershins
“It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.”
“It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“It was all connected, this poetics of listening, word making, and dancing. There was power to transform, to lighten the heaviness of the burden of being human. That's how I came to understand the power of poetry and music. It was a tool, but more than a tool. Words and music evoked a state of mind that lifted us up when racial and historical despair threatened.”
Source: Catching the Light
“It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.”
“It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)”
Source: Rites
“It was all for the eventual payoff and thank-you by giving Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential nomination. And it went awry in 2008 because somebody they liked better came along. Somebody they really liked better. I mean, somebody they loved better. They threw her overboard like an unwanted sack of potatoes down on the farm for Barack Hussein Obama. And she seethed, felt betrayed. Don't blame her a bit. They betrayed her big time.”
“It was all glimmer and warm honey in the yellow light.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“It was all he ever wanted. To not be his best, but have someone think he was anyway.”
Source: Spectral
“It was all hurt pride, of course. He knew that. If you're going to be all noble and self-sacrificing and immolate a chance at happiness on the altar of your own personal unworthiness, you hate to think that the sacrifice wasn't actually worth anything.”
Source: Paladin's Hope
“It was all I could do not to fall on my knees and weep like the bastard she always said I was, and I was a breath away from begging her to run away with me. I can’t believe I’m admitting this on tape—I was standing at that table, she hit me with that look of hers, and I swear to God all I wanted to do was grab her hand, press it into my heart and say, “Let’s get the hell out of here.”
I was even willing to ride the 6 all the way to Houston Street. No kidding, I was going to take the subway to prove my love. And if she said no, I was going to kidnap her until she agreed to stay.”
“It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.”
“It was all I could think about.
Even as I slept, I dreamt of creating beautiful things.”
Source: Trying
“It was all I had, to say sorry and to say "I still love you." Somewhere so beautiful, for the only love I ever knew...”
“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”
“It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.”
Source: Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
“It was all kind of a whirlwind at the beginning. I didn't really realize that I had a special gift from God. It was probably towards the end of high school in my senior year when things really started to come together and I realized that I had more potential and that I could do this as a career and that the Olympics were a possibility.”
“It was all kind of fuzzy, as if his mind was doing its thinking in limericks.”
Source: The Scriptlings
“It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.
That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“It was all over.
She was certain of it once more. She was going to die here, as all her possible lives were ravished all around her.
But then she saw it, amid a brief clearing in the clouds. There, on the eleventh aisle that way. Third shelf from the bottom.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It was all part of the Eastern system of control and appropriation, Frankie reflected philosophically. The old controlled the young, the educated the uneducated, and as for the rich, well the rich had no doubt at all that they actually owned the poor.”
Source: Colpetty People
“It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.”
Source: Vesuvius Club
“It was all real and blazing with detail.
But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.”
Source: A Certain Slant of Light
“It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.”
“It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.”
“It was all right. Nick thought about this and decided that what Alan said was true. He'd never been helpless before, not since he could remember, but now he was and everything was all right. He did not have to speak, he was not able to move, all he could do was lie there and have his brother hold him, hunched over and shielding him from the world.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.”
“It was all so crazy... as weird as finding out that someone had written a book about my life or something.”
Source: Let It Snow
“It was all so easy, he thought, tracing his way through each of his actions in the previous hour. So easy it’d be stupid not to do it again. Look around even more next time. Enjoy the experience. Poke around a bit. Take something.”
Source: Moments to Spare
“It was all so easy. My mum says it was denial. That I wanted life to pass me by, instead of standing there getting drenched in it like everyone else. She thought less of me now, that was hardly surprising. I thought less of her, too. We were standing on each side of a trench, measuring each other. Measuring each other with our eyes. Who was the stronger? Who was the weak? Who would come creeping in the night, sobbing and reaching out to be held?”
Source: Welcome to America
“It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer
“It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.”
Source: Sonora
“It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.”
“It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.”
“It was all the fault of the Hound. They said, when once you saw him, your life was forever changed.”
Source: Starflower
“It was all the same, wasn’t it? The same women moving across the terraces in a familiar click of heels, the same men murmuring to one another in low tones about the same things they always discussed, their eyebrows drawn together in the same clichéd expression of concern. It all struck Avery as futile, and purposeless. Here they were, halfway around the world, and yet everyone was stuck in their little loops—engaging in the old tired flirtations, doomed to the same disappointments.”
Source: The Dazzling Heights
“It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me.”
“It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.”
Source: Stay
“It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'”
“It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.”
“It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.”
Source: The Ringmaster's Daughter
“It was all too easy to take a thing for granted, even something beautiful, when you lived with it every day, she thought. The extraordinary faded into ordinary, even mundane.”
Source: The Stroke of Winter
“It was all too much. For a moment Eddard Stark wanted nothing so much as to return to Winterfell, to the clean simplicity of the north, where the enemies were winter and the wildlings beyond the Wall. “Surely Robert has other loyal friends,” he protested. “His brothers, his—”
“—wife?” Varys finished, with a smile that cut. “His brothers hate the Lannisters, true enough, but hating the queen and loving the king are not quite the same thing, are they? Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.”
Source: A Game of Thrones