I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In workout never try and follow someone else's exact routine because everyone has a different body, For me, I do a lot of weight training, and this works great for me because I am lean and want to build muscle mass. Find what's best for you and keep it up!”
“In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.”
“In world history, Mr. McElroy was starting the Causes of World War I. You know how many Causes there were for World War I? No wonder they fought.”
“In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.”
Source: Race: Science and Politics
“In world politics, every 100 big seats are occupied by 99 people who are inferior in talent or morality! The reason the world is in such a bad situation is not actually those 99 incompetent or rustic cunning people, but the idiots who brought them there or continue to keep them in those positions!”
“In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.”
“In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.”
“In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.”
“In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.”
“In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things that the government could not do. The private sector complied. That is what I am suggesting.”
“In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Source: Home to Holly Springs
“In worldly life, no one will become our very own. It is only our Soul that is our very own. Where everything is relative, what is there (to expect)?”
Source: Who am I?
“In worldly state, the Soul [the Real Self, Atma] compresses and spreads according to the ‘vessel’ (the body); and in the state of moksha [the ultimate liberation], it is the same throughout.”
Source: Guru and Disciple
“In worldly terms, she was totally innocent; Eve before the fall, with no knowledge of good and evil. She made one realize how necessary the Fall was; without it, there would have been no human drama, and so no literature, no art, no suffering, no religion, no laughter, no joy, no sin and no redemption. Only camera work (towards which Mrs. Dobbs's painting was reaching) and sociology (which her sister, Beatrice Webb, may be said to have invented).”
Source: Chronicles of wasted time
“In worldly terms, "This is good and this is bad," is spoken whereas in the language of the Lord, it is considered to be one and the same. An eternal element is an eternal element! The pudgal (inanimate matter) is in the intrinsic nature as pudgal and the Self is in the intrinsic nature as the Self.”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath all. Worship does not consist in achieving a mental state of concentrated isolation from one’s fellows. But in depth of common worship it is as if we found our separate lives were all one life, within whom we live and move and have our being.”
“In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.”
“In worship, God imparts himself to us.”
“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”
Source: Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
“In would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.”
“In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.”
Source: Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our
“In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.”
“In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.”
“In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.”
“In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.”
Source: Lifted Masks, and Other Works
“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.”
Source: A Fiction Writer's Character Workbook
“In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.”
Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
“In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.”
“In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.”
“In writing about the origins of Taps...would you believe there is a tie to American Express? Yes, American Express the credit card or bank holding company.”
“In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.”
“In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.”
“In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.”
Source: Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
“In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.”
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me."
[Letter to Joan Lancaster, 26 June 1956]”
Source: Letters to Children
“In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.”
“In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.”
“In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.”
“In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.”
“In writing I try to pare down the descriptive bits. If I feel that I could say something in as few words as possible, then I would rather do it than to go on padding. One should describe sufficiently to give the reader a sense of what one feels, but not at the same time overwhelm the reader in any way. For example, I feel that if you use lots of adjectives they have a mutually cancelling effect. If you can describe a scene well enough, without having to use far too many words, I would rather do so.”
“In writing I was often aware that the same observation could fit neatly into different ideological moulds and that a train window is both mirror and window.”
Source: Across a red world
“In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.”
“In writing, Is to flow for it to grow!”
Source: The Colourful Dreams Of Leo
“In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.”
“In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.”
“In writing my forthcoming book, I’ve been reminded that if I ramble through the past long enough, famous personalities are inextricably woven together, and some associations are more surprising than others.”
“In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts." Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.”