I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”
Source: White Noise
“It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.”
“It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.”
“It was important for me to show that Beirut and Lebanon were once the pearl of the Middle East. Beirut was once called the Paris of the Middle East and to have that feeling of a destroyed place that once was beautiful and glamorous and visually impressive was important. I think it's even sadder to get the feeling that this country, and indeed the whole Middle East, could have been a major force in the world if people would get together and forget about destruction, death and wars. But unfortunately, it's not happening yet.”
“It was important for me to understand that I was only a very small part of her picture. She was a person before she was my grandmother, and that was something I had never precisely considered.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.”
“It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.”
“It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful”
“It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.”
“It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.”
“It was important that the objects of love be nothing but recipients, he thought again. Love was an outgoing thing, a gift that one should not expect to be returned. Stendhall must have said that, Proust certainly, using other words: a piece of wisdom his eyes had passed over reading.”
Source: Those Who Walk Away
“It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me”
“It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.”
“It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.”
“It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.”
“it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.”
“It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.”
Source: The Gemini Contenders: A Novel
“It was important to look calm and confident, it was important to keep your mind clear, it was important not to show how pants-wettingly scared you were….”
Source: Wintersmith
“It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.”
“It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.”
“It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn't want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, "I need you guys." I wanted to be so cool that the audience could leave and I would still be killing, that I didn't want to have to rely on them or need them. That really appealed to me.”
“It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?”
“It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't matter who you are or what business you are running. You would always be seen as some African from the bush trying to run a bank. But we do these things successfully and we shouldn't be seen as second rate. That is the message that we are putting out there.”
“It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.”
“It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.”
“It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.”
“It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.”
“It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.”
“It was important to name this house, but not the way "Sweet Home" or other plantations were named. There would be no adjectives suggesting coziness or grandeur or the laying claim to an instant, aristocratic past. Only numbers here to identify the house while simultaneously separating it from a street or city—marking its difference from the houses of other blacks in the neighborhood; allowing it a hint of the superiority, the pride, former slaves would take in having an address of their own. Yet a house that has, literally, a personality—which we call "haunted" when that personality is blatant.”
Source: Beloved
“It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .”
“It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.”
“It was impossible for her to be without one, although, with her vivid imagination, she changed idols frequently.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“It was impossible for Juliet to picture her mother before she was her mother, to imagine she'd had a life before.”
Source: Meet the Newmans
“It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.”
Source: Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.
“It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.”
“It was impossible not to fall in love with him.”
Source: Affairytale
“It was impossible not to smile back-Nick radiated light.”
Source: The Secret Diamond Sisters
“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“It was impossible to be miserable when the world was sunshine, blue skies and strawberries and cream. The air smelled sweet and full, the taste of summertime tangible on my tongue and there was something about the green grass under my feet that made me smile.”
Source: Love Story
“It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.”
“It was impossible to describe Allegra. He knew the human. The girl with the mole on her neck. The girl who would only say "bless you" twice—if you sneezed a third time, she was silent. The girl who picked at her lips when she was nervous. The girl who carried her own hot sauce around. The girl who stared off into space, sometimes for minutes on end. The girl who only made eye contact when she was listening to you, rarely when she was speaking to you. The girl who loathed smelly cheese. The girl who
unconsciously mimicked people's accents. The girl whose entire face transformed when she laughed.
His Allegra. The one millions
would never know.
The one he had
earned through one summer of working with her, and one night in a glass house.”
Source: Wish You Were Her
“It was impossible to explain. The new moon, the snow, the dusky smell of burning logs -- the whole evening had throbbed with some sweet haunting anguish of the soul. The word came to her. Nostalgia--for something that was hers and seemed already passed.”
Source: Claudia
“It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.”
“It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.”
Source: Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
“It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.”
Source: The High Lord: Book 3 of the Black Magician
“It was impossible to make it through the tragedy
Without poetry. What are we without winds becoming words?”
Source: An American Sunrise
“It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.”
Source: Camp David
“It was impossible to tame, like leeches.”
Source: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.”
Source: The Mysterious Stranger
“It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”
The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged that the United States didn’t fully live up to that ideal, but he argued that America came closer than anywhere else.”