I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.”
“If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good and sometimes you're like, "That one was just sorta there."”
“If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.”
“If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.”
“If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.”
“If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”
Source: Iced: Fever Series
“If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.”
“If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.”
“If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.”
“If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.”
“If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you cannot remove it without removing your face.”
“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
“If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.”
“If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.”
“If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.”
Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)
“If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning.
They're right. It does.
However much you beg it to stop.
It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember.
It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling through life...
All trying not to think about what's waiting at the bottom.
Sometimes it turns and sends us reeling into each other's arms. We cling tight, excited and laughing, strangers thrown together on a moving funhouse floor.
Intoxicated by the motion we forget all the risks.
And then the world turns...
And somebody falls off...
And oh God it's such a long way down.
Numb with shock, we can only stand and watch as they fall away from us, gradually getting smaller...
Receding in our memories until they're no longer visible.
We gather in cemeteries, tense and silent as if for listening for the impact; the splash of a pebble dropped into a dark well, trying to measure its depth.
Trying to measure how far we have to fall.
No impact comes; no splash. The moment passes. The world turns and we turn away, getting on with our lives...
Wrapping ourselves in comforting banalities to keep us warm against the cold.
"Time's a great healer."
"At least it was quick."
"The world keeps turning."
Oh Alec—
Alec's dead.”
Source: Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth
“If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.”
“If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.”
“If you wear things you adore, you just look better.”
“If you went crazy, would you know it?”
“If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.”
“If you went out for a pee at night, the reindeer came running over to drink your pee. Apparently, there are minerals in it they need and don’t have.”
“If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.”
“If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.”
Source: Life of Pi
“If you went to all those little towns in America, JPMorgan was there in good times and bad times, and, in fact, helped a lot of people through the tough times. And we know that's when they need us the most.”
“If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.”
“If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.”
“If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.”
“If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't find a shrine there. At the headwaters of the rivers of India, they are pilgrimage places.”
“If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.”
“If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!”
“If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.”
“If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.”
Source: Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide
“If you were a butterfly, what color would you bleed?” I ask.
He looks at me like I just asked him to pluck his eyeballs out. Then his face softens a bit.
“Blue,” he answers. “And you, Ms. Branson?”
I think about my own question for a moment. I don’t want to be typical and say my favorite color like he did.
“Orange,” I say.
He studies my face. “Why orange?”
“Because blue burns orange,” I say. “I figure no two colors could ever be closer than those igniting a flame.”
Source: American Girl on Saturn
“If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.”
“If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?”
“If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.”
“If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.”
“If you were a customer, would you come back to buy your products or services?”
“If you were a fish, and you were to touch a doorknob, you would be able to feel the presence of every person who had touched that doorknob during the course of a day.”
“If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.”
“If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.”
Source: Conversations with William H. Gass
“If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.”
“If you were a girl it was a lot safer to be decent than to be beautiful.”
“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”
Source: The lightning thief
“If you were a kangaroo you'd forget you've got a joey in your pouch.”
“If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.”
“If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.”
“If you were a man, you'd go into business
for yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just a
canoe. Now he's got more women than you can shake a stick at, if
that's your idea of a good time.”