I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.”
“It was pretty silly, quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
“It was primary election, but [Donald] Trump hasn't spent a lot of money. Not compared to - I mean, Jeb Bush had a $115 million super PAC, and he has six delegates. It's not a dream, but it's something I do think about.”
“It was Primrose Everdeen.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page, and I go, "Hmmm. That's interesting." Second page, "Wow." By the fourth page, my heart started to beat, and I knew. It makes me cry, because I knew I had found a classic film. You just know when you get certain material.”
“It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give.”
Source: The Naked and the Dead
“It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.”
“It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.”
“It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.”
“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”
“It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.”
“It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.”
Source: No More Parades
“It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another”
Source: The Last Time They Met
“It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.”
“It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.”
“It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.”
“It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.”
“It was probably the stupid glasses. How were you supposed to see anything wearing mirrored sunglasses underground? Any they were so nineties, they weren't even retro yet.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“It was probably too much to hope for, but Evangeline had always had a weakness for hoping and things others thought impossible.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”
“It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'”
“It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.”
“It was protective, on her side; sprang from a sense of being in league together, a presentiment of something that was bound to part them (they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe), which led to this chivalry, this protective feeling which was much more on her side than Sally's.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.”
“It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It was psychologically natural for the lively younger sister to become the royal equivalent of the enfant terrible.”
Source: Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
“It was put in the books that Thomas Kanza was the first university graduate, but he was a secular and a Congolese from Belgium (1956). The very first graduate was Paul Panda Farnana, an agronomist trained in Belgium (1907). But considering post-secondary education, it is father Stefano Kaoze (1917) who is the first graduate trained in Congo.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.”
“It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“It was quiet as I settled in to read alongside Sherlock Holmes and David Copperfield. But for the crackle of the fire and the ever-present whistle of the wind outside, it was as quiet as it had been in the city, after everything changed. And for a moment, the space between heartbeats, I felt I could glimpse the world Charley saw. A world of light and shadow, of fact, truth and story, each blurring into one another as sleep and wakefulness blur in the early morning. The moments of our lives unfolding as pages in a book. And everything connected, everyone joined, by an ever-shifting web of language, by words that caught us as prisms caught light and reflected back at ourselves.”
Source: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
“It was quiet, deeply so, but it was the kind of quiet that lived and moved and changed, filled to the brim with crickets and wings and the sounds of late summer.”
Source: Falling into Place
“It was quiet, the old wood creaking and the snow barely visible outside the stained glass. And I sat down. And I looked up. At this giant room I was in. At this place where thousands of people had sat before me. And alone, at night, in the middle of a New Haven storm, I felt so remarkably, unbelievably safe.”
Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“It was quieter than usual. The kind of quietness I hate, quietness, makes me remember things I don't want to remember.”
Source: Lust Marked: The beginning of the End
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we found each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hope
that things will go on and get better
and that things and people and views are still out there, yet to be found.”
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be. With no effort or trying, just slowly finding each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hope
that things will go on and get better.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.”
“It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.”
“It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.”
“It was quite a revelation to discover that the history and science textbooks we used in high school were works of fiction.”
“It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.”
“It was quite a sad thing,
the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how could I not
when everything I’ve ever known has slowly gone away.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots”
“It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.”
“It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.”
“It was quite apparent that he'd been bestowed all the charms of any handsomely clad rake. A demeanor to match, Ruby thought.”
Source: Ruby
“It was quite clear to Hazard that he couldn't just slot into his old life again. He was a different shape now, and he didn't fit.”
Source: The Authenticity Project
“It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.”
Source: The House of Silk