I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is like everything in layers. Things happen right at the front of the pictures and at the same time they continue happening, both separately and connectedly, behind, and behind that, and again behind that, like you can see, in perspective, for miles. Then there are the separate details, like that man with the duck. They're all also happening on their own terms. The picture makes you look at both--the close-up happenings and the bigger picture. Looking at the man with the duck is like seeing how everyday and how almost comic cruelty is. The cruelty happens in among everything else happening. It is an amazing way to show how ordinary cruelty really is.”
Source: How to be Both
“It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'”
“It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.”
“It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
“It is like I am on a merry-go-round; it just keeps going in circles, round and round—and another go-round I go. When will I be able to get off?”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.”
“It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.”
Source: Life and letters
“It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.”
Source: Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
“It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.”
Source: Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky
“It is like the man who closes his eyes to the sun and then finds himself walking over the edge of a cliff. If the man is too foolish to use the gift of light given to him, how can the sun be blamed for his death?”
Source: The Shadow Miner
“It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.”
“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”
Source: Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life
“It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.”
“It is like they are inside your dreams and they surface your subconscious to make you express an evil side in reality while you were not expressing it all this time.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“It is like they have put into your brain something that makes you
think bad thoughts. I highly doubt that the labeled as mentally "ill"
have it as inherent in their dna. They may have been manipulated
from some secret gun.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“It is like this every year—a baby king
is born to die, and I will sleep alone,
failing at the very thing I fear failure of.”
Source: Heaven
“It is like this: Some people care deeply but they don't know how to say it; then some people say words to make it seem like they care deeply, but in reality they don't. Some people care deeply only in the moment, like seeds which last in the soil for three days until dying out; and others can't see the moments, but their roots do run deep. Some people can imitate what it looks like to care deeply and they can fabricate that for a while though they never did feel anything on the inside of them; while others are incapable of showing outwardly how they feel on the inside, it is a monster they struggle with, their feelings so strong they cannot even let those beasts out of their cages, they fear their own creatures! Some people care deeply here, and over there, and all over the place, you never really know where they belong because they seem to belong to everyone and to everything; while others don't care about anybody but you can see where they belong, who they belong to, there is always this one person or those two people and small places. Some people belong to themselves only and if you want to be a part of their lives, you'll have to become a part of them and after you do, they will never leave you because you are inside of their bones now; while others don't even know who they are or where they're going and if you belong to someone like that, you could be here today and gone tomorrow! Some people don't care and don't act like they care and we don't believe them until they make us believe them; while others care and they act like they care and we don't believe them until it's too late. We are often wounded and torn, because we never know which kind of a person they are until we are either wounded and torn, or until we have found a home. It's either or, always either or, and neither of these outcomes are easy ones because either one will change your life.”
“It is like truth according to Nietzsche: we no longer believe that the truth is true when all its veils have been removed. Similarly, we do not believe that war is war when all uncertainty is supposedly removed and it appears as a naked operation. The nudity of war is no less virtual than that of the erotic body in the apparatus of striptease.”
Source: The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
“It is like trying to have a quiet conversation at a rock concert - you could barely hear yourself think over the noise.”
Source: Clickonomics: How to Win Customers and Influence People on the Internet
“It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.”
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.”
Source: Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell
“It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our continent.”
“It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our society due to ignorance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.”
Source: Poems
“It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.”
“It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.”
“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
“It is like you to have thought of such a beautiful thing."
Not a thing, only an ending," said Helen rather sadly; and the sense of tragedy closed in on Margaret again as soon as she left the house.”
Source: Howards End
“It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.”
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
“It is likely I will never go to Florida again.”
“It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“It is likely that for most of us, the compulsive need to do well, succeed, and achieve is a reflection of deep seated feelings of inferiority. Wherever it comes from, the need to accomplish or live up to some ideal role, such as being the best parent, student, or worker, is very common in people who get TMS. p.41”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“It is likely that for most of us, the compulsive need to do well, succeed, and achieve is a reflection of deep seated feelings of inferiority. Wherever it comes from, the need to accomplish or live up to some ideal role, such as being the best parent, student, or worker, is very common in people who get TMS. (page 41)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.”
“It is likely that unlikely things should happen”
Source: On Poetry and Style
“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
“It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.”
“It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.”
“It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.”
“It is little by little that we find the courage for it all.”
Source: war, over easy: a poetry collection
“It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.”
“It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!”
“It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.”
“It is little use to blame a dog for having fear. A dog has so many braveries that its few fears do not cancel them out.”
Source: Lassie Come-Home