I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!”
“Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that”
“Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place”
“Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic notion of fairness? Isn't that in the Constitution? Where is the fairness to American citizens here?”
“Isn't she lovely made from love?”
“isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?”
“Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.”
Source: Imitation of Life
“Isn't television glamourous?”
“Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?”
“Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.”
“Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.”
“Isn't that ridiculous to show Peter standing at the gates of Heaven with a ring of keys? The doors are already unlocked for us, all we've got to do is walk in through the front gate!”
“Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road. "So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.”
“Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.”
“Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.”
“Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?”
Source: Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth
“Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?”
“Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?”
Source: Rick Santorum
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.”
“Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?”
Source: The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years
“Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.”
“Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts.”
“Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.”
“Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?”
“Isn't the Almighty always saying something, girl? Speaking through everything created, whispering in your hopes and dreams. Urging you to get on with business?”
Source: Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book
“Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?”
“Isn't the best defense always a good attack?”
Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love
“Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?”
“Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's[sic] first act in office was to promote "gays in the military." RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together.”
“Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.”
“Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.”
“Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .”
“Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?”
“Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?”
“Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?”
“Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.”
“Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.”
“Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small governmental elite?”
“Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?”
Source: Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs
“Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?”
“Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.”
“Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?”
“Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!”