I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was amazing how having a goal, and taking action, made you stop caring about things like that.”
Source: The Strange Land
“It was amazing how I was able to ignore all his cursing, but he knew airplanes. He showed me how to line up straight on the obscene-curse-word runway and how to use the curse-word throttle and rudder to control the blasphemous-curse-word-plane, how to taxi down the smutty-curse-word runway and, when I got up to top speed, how to add up-elevator and how to maintain a simple-curse-word gradual ascent.”
Source: Iola O
“It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off the street - as soon as I heard his voice.”
“It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.”
Source: Middlesex
“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”
“It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.”
“It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all the crews, and just really making it an enjoyable industry rather than just clocking in and doing a job which a lot of movies are.”
“It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.”
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”
“It was amazing, I felt that strength and I let it go. They sang to me with the voices of freedom and I was gone. When I returned, I was free to walk on the solid ground; with pressure, therefore, I was no longer alone.”
“It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.”
“It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.”
“It was amazing that I was ever elected.”
“It was amazing though, right?
Once in a lifetime level stuff!”
Source: Limitations
“It was amazing to be able to sit up half the night and look at the moon if you wanted to. To be late for meals if you wanted to....Dawdle over meals as long as you wanted to. Leave your crusts if you wanted to. Not come home at all for meals if you wanted to. Sit on a sun-warm rock and paddle your bare feet in the hot sand if you wanted to. Just sit and do nothing in the beautiful silence if you wanted to. In short, do any fool thing you wanted to whenever the notion took you. If that wasn't freedom, what was?”
Source: The Blue Castle
“It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.”
“It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.”
“It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good?”
“It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.”
“It was amazing to think that she'd always had it wrong, imagining that they were the weak ones, the ones who took their chance. No. The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice.”
“It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.”
“It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.”
Source: Their Friend Scarlet
“It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.”
“It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because
they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.”
“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”
Source: The Kiltartan Poetry Book
“It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.”
“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.”
Source: Philosophic Nights in Paris
“It was an accident that intertwined our fates, a brief moment of chance that carried unexpected significance. The paths we walked, once so far apart, crossed in a way that felt almost deliberate. I wonder if such an accident might find us again.”
“It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.”
“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”
Source: It Chooses You
“it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.”
“It was an act of trust to sleep in de presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies”
Source: Outlander
“It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at the Jersey Shore, on the bay in Stone Harbor. I walked everywhere barefoot. It was just the most amazing, magical way to grow up.”
“It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?”
Source: Stray
“It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.”
“It was an aigrette, or plume, composed of two feathers of a vulture, fastened together by an opal, which with the changing light changed with a variability which enchanted the Swiss damsel who had never seen anything resembling it in her life.”
Source: Anne of Geierstein
“It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But he came under the condition that "I want and I'm called to make this a multiethnic church." So they knew. He's interesting because he's part-Asian, part-white. He's married to a Hispanic woman, so that's their family and that's their vision.”
“It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.”
“It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.”
“It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.”
“It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.”
“It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.”
“It was an animal love, like an animal that has been living in an incomprehensible world until one day it encounters another of its kind and understands that it has been applying its comprehension in the wrong place all along.”
Source: To Be a Man: Stories
“It was an arms crushing me to his body, heads slanting, mouths opened, tongues invading, toes curling, knees weakening, bones dissolving, deep, wet, hungry, carnal kiss. It seemed to last forever but that forever was not near long enough.”
Source: Lady Luck
“It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.”