I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.”
Source: The Last Song
“I’m stuck fighting. (Acheron) You’re stuck fighting. But you’re welcome to come share my beach any time you get tired of the brawl. (Savitar) Save me a spot. If this blows up in my face, I’ll be back with my tail forever tucked between my legs. (Acheron)”
“I’m stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I’m alone. Because in France, they’re like, no, you’re not like us, you’re not a French guy. And in America, they’re like, you’re not like us. I’m really alone in my little thing.”
“I’m stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it’s very harmful.”
“I’m such a relationship guy. I really am.”
“I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.”
“I’m super annoying, I’m the kind of guy that if there’s no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in.”
“I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here’s the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.”
Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”
“I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana”
“I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.”
Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian
“I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.”
“I’m sure you gathered this by now: I just do what I want. Have I made out with chicks? Hell yeah. Did I think it was awesome? Hell yeah. I wouldn’t call myself bi. Like, if I didn’t eat meat for a week, it doesn’t make me a vegetarian. So I like people, and that’s just it. I like people.”
“I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.”
“I’m taking off my shoes.’’ ‘‘Fine. Shoes off.’’ ‘‘And my pants.’’ ‘‘Don’t push it, Claire.”
Source: Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires
“I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low standard for communication.”
Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of murder bother you at all? (Alix) Given everything people have done to me in my life, little girl, especially in my childhood when I was helpless against them, humanity is lucky I’m not on a perpetual killing spree. As for the Merjacks…I owe them a debt that no amount of violence on my part will settle. So, no. Nothing about killing him would bother me. (Nero)”
“I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“I’m telling you, you’d like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer’s. The other day, he was going off on unaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, and I was thinking, ‘You know who this sounds like? Melbourne.’” -- Trey”
Source: Bloodlines: The Golden Lily
“I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.”
“I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.”
“I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.”
“I’m the bomb like tick tick.”
“I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.”
“I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.”
Source: Wintergirls
“I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.” “You must be fun at parties,” I said.”
Source: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid
“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”
“I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent, “Your child looks healthy and well cared for.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.”
“I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.”
“I’m the only fire that can live in the rain”
“I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.”
“I’m the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel.”
“I’m the same weight now as I’ve always been-even before having children-but I have to say there’s been a redistribution of the flesh!”
“I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.”
Source: A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
“I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.”
“I’m the youngest in my family and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.”
“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
“I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.”
“I’m tighter than face lifts and flyer than spaceships.”
“I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.”
“I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.”
Source: Doomsday Conspiracy: The New Novel
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”
“I’m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn’t even had his first date yet. He’d only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.’ – Nick”
Source: Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick
“I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”
“I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.”
“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.”
“I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.”