I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.”
“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
“If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.”
“If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.”
“If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer”
“If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.”
“If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.”
“If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light.”
“If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.”
Source: Strictly for laughs
“If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.”
“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
“If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.”
“If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.”
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.”
“If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.”
“If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.”
“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.”
“If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”
“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!”
“If it wets your whistle, blow it.”
“If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?”
“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays
“If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing as love, or the word does not mean what I have thought it to mean on many different occasions. It is a feeling without a name, really—better to leave it at that. So take it and go away and have your fun with it. You know that we would both be at one another's throats again one day, as soon as we run out of common enemies. We had many fine reconciliations, but were they ever worth the pain that preceded them? Know that you have won and that you are the goddess I worship—for are not worship and religious awe a combination of love and hate, desire and fear?”
Source: Lord of Light
“If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—” “Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.”
Source: Vision In White: Number 1 in series
“If it won’t matter in a year or two, it’s not worth the worry.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.”
“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.”
“If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.”
Source: The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire
“If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“If it works, it's obsolete.”
Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media
“If it works, it's out of date.”
“If it works, it's true.”
“If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”
“If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”
“If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.”
“If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work”
“If it's a boy, I'll put him in tutus!”
“If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.”
“If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.”
Source: Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel
“If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.”
“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”
“If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.”
“If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.”
“If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.”
“If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.”