I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.”
“It was such a lovely jar she had kept them in. But the glass is cracking now. The water leaking through.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“it was such a lovely night. The moon was round and large, framed perfectly between the buildings like the main character in her own film, reflecting off the windows, cascading silvery light into the warm orange of the streetlights.”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters”
“It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“It was such a relief to be able to sob and have someone know all the reasons why.”
Source: Rebel Belle
“It was such a relief to be right even though you knew you only got there by trying every possible way to be wrong.”
Source: Feet Of Clay
“It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.”
“It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement.”
Source: The Watch Tower
“It was such a shame that our stones were bought dirtcheap then set in designer jewellery overseas and sold for exorbitant prices. Neither Pakistan nor Swat were ever mentioned in the end-credits of the product”
Source: Reham Khan
“It was such a small thing. Just a stranger on the internet, sending her a frog. But somehow, it felt like the first step toward something better.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.”
Source: The Forsyte Saga
“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.”
Source: The Golden Compass
“It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.”
“It was such a thrill. I found the roughest, toughest girls who love to party. They study and work all day in the Agricultural world and college and then they party. I met one girl at 3 am and she was so drunk and said 'l have to get up and cut a sheep's throat at 9 am.' I met another who was a wool classer. She said 'I can drink to 4 in the morning and class wool from 6 am. So I wrote Girls Out There about them.”
“It was such a time then – the words like payback, revenge and vendetta were very important to us. When I think of myself, I see a young and immature man, eager to get what he wanted, and pay for what someone else should have gotten in return. Both then and now, we are concerned with how much more to take and how much less to give. That was also my understanding of justice, but I knew I was obligated to make sure that they received retribution. And I saw retribution as a coin that was scrolled between the fingers of one of my hands. Then it would shoot up from the thumb and luck would decide – when you caught it in the air, who would get punishment and who wouldn’t.”
Source: The Devil I Know Him
“It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.”
“It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.”
Source: The Moon and More
“It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of them were scientists and some were crew members working on the ship. Just to hear their stories, like what drew them to Greenpeace in the first place and what they've been through. Every single second of the day they work to save the planet, which makes me as an actor feel quite insignificant.”
“It was such an amazing feeling to be on that movie set. And for the first scene I ever did in any movie, I improvised for about 10 minutes, and then there's applause by the crew, you know what I mean? I haven't had that before or since. It was just such an amazing moment.”
“It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.”
“It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.”
“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply.
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“It was suggested to me once that it’s called art-work, not art-fucking-around.”
“It was summer. And freedom. And youth. And heartbreak so hot it cauterized.”
Source: The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
“It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.”
Source: The Illustrated Man
“It was summer here and he wondered if there existed a different season for every corner of this world in this moment and the moments to come. Whether if you traveled fast and far enough you could witness a year passing in a single journey.”
Source: Snow Hunters
“It was summer in Chicago and in the distance the broken outlines of the boats on Lake Michigan gently swayed in the sunlight.”
Source: The Lion in the Colosseum
“It was summer. My afternoons
were made of time and vinyl.”
Source: Dance and Disappear
“It was summer, so the sun appeared in the bottom left-hand corner of the big window at quarter past six.
Ish.
It was hard to tell exactly until the sun rose just a little bit more, enough to send his beams through the holes carefully bored through a piece of wood, above which the hours were marked off in beautifully painted flourishes. This simple timepiece hung from the ceiling off a stick hammered sturdily in, because a string would have let it spin and therefore fail its task of tracking the sun.
The wind chimes, however, assembled from more bits of wood, and pieces of metal, and shaped and dried bits of pottery, were free to swing and tinkle as they pleased. These were surrounded by celestial bric-a-brac that also dangled from the ceiling and spun with abandon when the breeze found them: paper-mâché stars, comets of hoarded glass shards and mirror, a very carefully re-created (and golden) replica of the constellation Orion, a quilted and embroidered cloth model of the sun, and several paintings on rectangular panels hung such that they faced straight down. So that the viewer, in bed, might look up at them and pretend they were windows or friends, depending on whether the subject was landscapes or faces.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!”
“It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles going clink clink as Pa stuck them in the sack. The fowls were fluffing in the dust and sun: that crook-neck white pullet Mumma said she would hit on the head if only she had the courage to; but she hadn't.”
Source: The Vivisector
“It was Sunday evening when it finally stopped raining. He and his dad went into the forest, and it was super wet. There were pools of water everywhere. And sure enough, the stream had jumped its banks. It looked like a torrent because it was running so fast. Joey had never seen the stream like that.”
Source: Joey and His Friend Water
“It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.”
Source: Vet in Harness
“It was sunny, a rarity for Indiana in April, and everyone at the farmers' market was wearing short sleeves even though the temperature didn't quite justify it. We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.”
“It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.”
“It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.”
Source: Did I Mention I Need You?
“It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.”
Source: The Woman Upstairs
“It was surely only inevitable that tangible things would one day decay along with all those humans who were presently relying on a pumping heart to stay alive.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.”
Source: The Red Badge of Courage
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.”
Source: Dark Places: A Novel
“It was surprising to find that the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’ has one of the worst social security systems in the world.”
“It was surprising to think that in fact they were signs, that is, the ashes of an incinerated voice.
Bunların gerçekte yazı işaretleri, yani yanan bir sesin külleri olduklarını düşünmek inanılmaz bir şeydi.”
Source: Silk
“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumedly educated, civilized man.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“It was surreal, how everything continued, how everything kept “on” after a person died. Shouldn’t time stop for grief, even for a moment, so one might catch their breath before things started moving again?”
Source: The Witch of Tin Mountain
“It was Suzy Kassem who first said, Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!”
“It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.”
Source: The Green Mile