I Quotes
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“It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.”
“It probably goes without saying that certainty is also the great enemy of art, and the deadly enemy of the artist.
I suspect the artists that will speak to our moment (and survive it ) best will be ones with the lowest levels of certainty, who haven’t allowed the lure of social media to turn them into certainty pimps, who recall Milan Kundera’s observation that the novelist/artist teaches us to comprehend the world as a question, not an answer. As Kundera notes, “There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.” The artists who I’m most interested in these days are the ones who struggle always to be “heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.”
“It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.”
“It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.”
“It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.”
“It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.”
“It probably wasn’t entirely her fault that she was such a bitter person. Having a name like Grace can be a serious stigma, especially when nature has endowed you with about as much charm as that of a disillusioned walrus.”
Source: The Scriptlings
“It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.”
“IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.”
“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!”
“It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.”
Source: American Institutions
“It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.”
Source: Ragtime, The March, and Homer & Langley: Three Bestselling Novels
“It proposes to each of us that we transform ourselves, or our lives, by buying something more.
This more, it proposes,will make us in some way richer - even though we will be poorer by having spent our money.
Publicity persuades us of such a transformation by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable. The state of being envied is what constitutes glamour. And publicity is the process of manufacturing glamour. (P. 125)”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.”
“It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.”
“It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.”
“It proved what the Vicar said, that there really was a devil lurking in the shadows in the dark recesses of the human mind, a monster preying on the defenceless, the old and the young, small boys and old ladies, the raving lunatics turned onto the streets for some care in the community. It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.”
Source: The Football Factory
“It proves what they say, give the public what they want to see and they'll come out for it.”
“It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.”
“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”
“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
“It pulled her along through curiosity and compulsion, and even though she didn't know the question, she longed to find out the answers”
Source: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Druid's Call
“It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.”
“It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
“It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.”
“It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.”
“It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.”
“It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.”
“It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.”
“It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.”
“It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?”
“It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.”
“It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.”
“It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .”
“It radiates out from him like a cloud of ghosts, countless hands clutching at the air, reaching out for…something.”
Source: The New Hunger
“It rained again.The drippings of my thought float with the downpour,trespassing all the murky ways through,painting you in the rainbow view.”
“It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.”
Source: The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)
“It rained cats and dogs non-stop at this wedding. Later during the reception, the rain stopped as the sun was setting, and the sky turned pink. The bride later said that this picture made the rainy day totally worth it!”
“It rained for four days and four nights, hard. Aniline wasn’t used to it. At first in the neighborhoods, ditches adjacent to the streets handled the flood. The water finished filling the ditches and hid the potholes in the roads. Rain then brimmed the streets over, making Aniline into Venice. It eventually spread out in the low spots in the driveways, invaded lawns, and crept up towards the house foundations. People wandered into the café with squelching boots and comments ranging from philosophical to querulous. Then the weather broke. They had two intensely hot days. Banks of mist rose off the saturated yards and fields. The roads drained, and a blanket of mud covered the pavements. As if all this wasn’t enough, a super-cell thunderstorm rolled towards them to give them another taste of violent Texas weather.”
“It rained in Hampshire yesterday, a soft autumn storm that brought down hardly any leaves. The dahlias are no longer in stem, and frost has withered the chrysanthemums, but the air smells divine, like old leaves and wet bark, and ripe apples. Have you ever noticed that each month has its own smell? May and October are the nicest-smelling months, in my opinion.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.”
Source: Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files
“It rains
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")”
Source: The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
“It rains on everyone.
It may be storming but there is a covering.
Life may be challenging, but there is a covering.
It may seem impossible, hopeless, doubtful, fear-ridden, and pain-laden, but there is a covering.
There are other umbrellas, but only one is red with the blood of Jesus. We need to love Jesus more than the noise.”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?”
“It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it. 'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops.”
“It rankled deeply that people who had never seen a battle should have such a strong aversion to the war. He'd actually seen people cross to the other side of the street to avoid passing him, and a man had spit at the sight of a crippled soldier begging outside the city gates.”
Source: Princess of the Midnight Ball
“It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.”
“It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.”
Source: Five years
“It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.”
Source: Letters and Addresses,