I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Is It Easy to Play?
Weeelll. Yes. And No. It is easy to produce a sound on a saxophone. That is part of its popularity. Seldom does a student not produce a sound in the first lesson. . . . And therein lies part of the challenge for the saxophone. It plays too easily. . . . The saxophone will respond to a wimpy puff of air—and will sound like it. Developing a good tone means developing a good ear that demands the necessary air speed to create that sound. . . .”
Source: A Practical Guide for Teaching the Saxophone to Beginners
“Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.”
“Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!”
Source: Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One
“Is it essential that I write?”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?”
“Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?”
Source: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
“Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?”
Source: Patty Jane's House of Curl
“Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?”
“Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?”
“Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?”
“Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.”
“Is it fair to call The Princess Bride a classic? The storybook story about pirates and princesses, giants and wizards, Cliffs of Insanity and Rodents of Unusual Size? It's certainly one of the most often quoted films in cinema history, with lines like:
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"Inconceivable?"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
"Have fun storming the castle."
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
"Rest well, and dream of large women."
"I hate for people to die embarrassed."
"Please consider me as an alternative to suicide."
"This is true love. You think this happens every day?"
"Get used to disappointment."
"I'm not a witch. I'm your wife."
"Mawidege. That bwessed awangement."
"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."... You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"
"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
And of course...
"As you wish.”
Source: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
Source: Collected fiction of Neil Jordan
“Is it fair to say that traveling is life itself? It is like seeing endless beauty, pain, desolation, beautiful hearts and minds, and nature through the windows of a fast-moving train where everything is fleeting and impossible to capture."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]”
“Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?”
“Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.”
“Is it fairer for everyone to have the same opportunities or to have the same outcomes? Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? Is it fairer for decisions to be uniform or to embody an element of human empathy? Impartial justice or individual allowances? Is it fairer to let people know how decisions are made or to have an opaque system to prevent cheating? Transparency or security?”
Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“Is it fate that dictates what happens to us, or do we?”
Source: It Will Just Be Us
“Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.”
“Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.”
Source: With a Tangled Skein
“Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?”
Source: Personality Development
“Is It Frightening To Be Free?"
"You said it."
"You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?"
"Seems to be a major human activity, yes.”
Source: Feet Of Clay
“Is it fun? Doin' all that detectin'? I always wanted to be a detective. I was one, for about a year, I liked the romance of it all. The suits, the hats, the dark alleys, the femme fetale, all that quick talkin' ... But I couldn't stop killin' folk. I mean, they'd hire me, I'd try to solve their mystery, nut halfway through I'd get bored and end up killin' them, and then the case'd be over and that'd be it. I solved one single murder that whole year, but I don't think that really counts, seein' as how I was the killer. I think that's kinda cheatin', in a way.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“Is it fun? Doin' all that detectin'? I always wanted to be a detective. I was one, for about a year, I liked the romance of it all. The suits, the hats, the dark alleys, the femme fetale, all that quick talkin' ... But I couldn't stop killin' folk. I mean, they'd hire me, I'd try to solve their mystery, nut halfway through I'd get bored and end up killin' them, and then the case'd be over and that'd be it. I solved one single murder that whole year, but I don't think that really counts, seein' as how I was the killer. I think that's kinda cheatin', in a way - Billy-Ray Sanguine.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?”
Source: Shadowplay
“Is it giving up if you give what you have
& the universe still fucks you”
Source: Brute: Poems
“Is it God? Did God set up the dominoes and wait for some human to flick the first one? Or is it the opposite way around? Did humans set them up so God could do the flicking?”
Source: Who Killed Christopher Goodman?
“Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million? That million might be more important to the team.”
“Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.”
Source: The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“Is it 'good' to go on doing the same old oblivious thing, to still enjoy it no matter what? Does perseverance steady the world?”
Source: I See You Everywhere
“Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?”
“Is it guilty in here or is it just me?”
“Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.”
“Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.”
“Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.”
“Is it him?” Dad asked. “Did he get you into trouble?” “Not me,” Shane said. “I’ve just got that kind of face.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."”
“Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!”
Source: Big Fat Manifesto
“Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.”
“Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.”
“Is it important that the rent of
land be retained as a source of
government revenue. Some persons
who could make excellent use of
land would be unable to raise money
for the purchase price. Collecting
rent annually provides access to
land for persons with limited
access to credit.”
“Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.”
“Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.”
“Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.”
“Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?”
“Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.”