I Quotes
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“It always makes me a little sad when you laugh," Julian went on. "The way it sort of takes you by surprise. I love it, it has that sweet sincerity that's the best part of you, but it still kills me how you never seem to expect it. All I want to do is make you happy, and you're the unhappiest person I've ever met.”
Source: These Violent Delights
“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
“It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.”
“It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.”
“It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.”
“It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face.”
“It always pays to be closer to nature, than people.”
“It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows what—probably this book, so get ready, I’m comin’—when the DJ actually tries to convince me that there are as many female comics as male ones. Cue hypermasculine Morning Zoo Hacky McGee voice: “So Kath, I don’t know what you chicks are always complaining about.” To which I respond: “Really? Why don’t you call your local comedy club and ask for the Saturday night lineup? I guarantee you the male to female ratio is going to be about nine to one. You dick-wad.”
Source: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
“It always puzzled me how some of the people who think killing and eating animals in the wild is somehow cruel have no problem buying dead animals at the grocery store, wrapped in cellophane instead of fur.”
Source: Going Rogue: An American Life
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.”
“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.”
“It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.”
“It always seemed to me that if you could get a laugh out of something, that was good, and if you could make life more colorful than it actually was, that was good. So, any artist of individual who worked in those two directions was doing something good.”
“It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“It always seemed to me that our fellow citizens had two passions: ideas and fornication. Without rhyme or reason, so to speak. (…) I sometimes think of what future historians will think of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. After that rigorous definition the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.”
Source: The fall
“It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose,
it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it
sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall,
making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had
still appeared to be a living beauty.”
“It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.”
Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
“It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.”
Source: Tales from Earthsea
“It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory.”
“It always seems a timely reminder; we are all souls looking for caring places to rest along our life journey. Let’s keep a light on for each other.”
“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”
Source: Killosophy
“It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“It always seems impossible until its done.”
“It always seems like the universe behaves reluctant to intercept those who determinedly travel to their destinations! It is as if the universe favours the decisive people!”
“It always seems like when you stop looking, that’s when you finally find what you’re looking for. Read that again. Stop looking for someone, you are someone.”
“It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.”
“It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film Adulthood that said it. I don't remember speaking to my elders like that, because you never remember... actually our generation was quite bad because everyone else always seems worse.”
“It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.”
Source: Lavender and Old Lace
“It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.”
“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)
“It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer
“It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.”
“It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves.”
“It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.”
“It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.”
“It always seems winsome and awesome until the wait is cumbersome”
“It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.”
Source: Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.”
Source: The Help
“It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.”
“It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.”
“It always started with a dream.”
“It always starts out that way," Kanin said, and his voice was distant, as if remembering. "Noble intentions, honor among new vampires. Vows to not harm humans, to take only what is needed, to not hunt them like sheep through the night.”
Source: The Immortal Rules