I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
“It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.”
“It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.”
“It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.”
“It’s me,” he said, and cleared his throat. “I could understand if you didn’t believe me, but I swear on the Angel, Iz, it’s me.” Alec said nothing, but his grip on Jace’s hand tightened. “You don’t need to swear,” he said, and with his free hand touched the parabatai rune near his collarbone. “I know. I can feel it. I don’t feel like I’m missing a part of me anymore.” “I felt it too.” Jace took a ragged breath. “Something missing. I felt it, even with Sebastian, but I didn’t know what it was I was missing. But it was you. My parabatai.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“It’s me,” said Jace. “Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.”
“It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.”
“It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.”
“It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.”
“It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!”
“It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“It’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!”
“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
“It’s much easier to give up, than to put a Fight, but fighters are only people that win.”
“It’s much harder for me... I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.”
“It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! “Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“It’s my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I’m not using my brain, I’m not doing the things my coach is telling me.”
“It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.”
“It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.”
Source: The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1
“It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.”
“It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did grow up believing that for every girl, there’s a prince out there somewhere. All she has to do is find him. Then it’s on with the happily ever after. So you can only imagine what happened when I found out. That my prince really IS one. A prince. No, I really mean it. He’s an actual PRINCE.”
Source: Queen of Babble in the Big City
“It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.”
“It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.”
“It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kind of unkillable, poetry. It’s our most ancient artform and I think it’s more relevant today than ever, because it’s one person saying what they really believe.”
“It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.”
“It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.”
“It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.”
Source: The Perfect Hope: Number 3 in series
“It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.”
Source: Lock and Key
“It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian”
“It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.”
“It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
“It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.”
Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
“It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?”
Source: On Love
“It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.”
“It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.”
“It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?”
“It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”
Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?”
“It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.”
“It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.”
Source: Bossypants
“It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.”
Source: Humility: True Greatness
“It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.”
“It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.”