I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's a funny thing, sex," she said. "It's a little thing like a glass of water is a little thing. Or something that falls off a car and only costs a couple of bob to replace. It's only a little thing, but nothing works without it.”
Source: Funny Girl
“It’s a funny thing to be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you might find one yourself. You can read the stories and watch the movies, and you can think you know how it’s all supposed to unfold.
But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster.
Finding a prince might mean kissing a lot of frogs. Or kicking a lot of frogs out of your house. Falling might mean running headfirst into something you always wanted. Or dipping your toe into something you’ve been scared of your whole life. Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes.”
Source: The Crown
“It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...”
Source: The Future Homemakers of America
“It's a funny world we live in,
When we are young, we pretend to be old.
When we are old, we pretend to be young.
When we are home, we want to see the world.
When on the road, we want to get home.
We are never happy at the moment,
we like to admire the idea of happiness.
We like to worship it from afar,
real happiness is fraught with troubles.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had to respond to distress calls. Unless of course it places their own lives in danger. Bearing this thought in mind, as you can probably tell by my writing, my fingers are beginning to tremble slightly.”
Source: Space Vacation
“It's a gift of peace, to know through darkness sees the light
Like the sterling moon, gleams bright up high in the eventide
Now's the time
To take every moment on the fly
Gonna look life straight in the eye
And make each and every dream come alive
Now's the time”
“It's a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering.”
“It’s a gift to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Banyan
“It's a gift to let other people be themselves. Let them face their own difficulties.”
Source: Essential Tools for Empaths: A Survival Guide for Sensitive People
“It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
Source: City of Bones
“It's a good Day for Kokomo”
“It's a good fact to meet a stranger,but unfortunate when they have bad intentions in meeting you after the fact. Just know you have been a loyal from the beginning.”
“It's a good idea, generally, not to offend women with that shade of Titian hair,' mused Phryne.”
Source: The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
“It's a good idea to jot down some of your thoughts from time to time and compare them with these realities to see if they match them. After that, you'll find yourself, like everyone else, often unconsciously swayed by thoughts that are actually completely unrealistic. This is normal. However, by recording, thinking and reflecting from time to time, you will become more and more adept at identifying unrealistic thoughts and escaping their influence. That's the difference. Many people don't know how unrealistic they really are in their lives.”
Source: 把时间当作朋友
“It's a good idea to take your time making friends: I usually give it six rounds. Whether they're bullets, beers, or bouts depends on the day.”
“It’s a good rule when you are walking into the West Wing of the White House to advise the president, vice president, or the White House staff to remind yourself that this might be the last time you will walk through that door. If you base your advice on the truth and on scientific evidence and do not sugarcoat anything, it is likely that sooner or later you will be telling the president or the vice president something they really don't want to hear, something that may point out a problem with how their administration is handling an issue. Sometimes when advisers do that, their opinion is no longer sought. It's a version of shooting the messenger. Some people might fall into the trap of never wanting to disappoint a powerful figure, and so they slant their advice toward pleasing rather than informing. Don't fall into that trap.' I hope I would have arrived at the wisdom Jim imparted on my own, but he was explicit about it, and continued, 'If you're consistent and totally honest, you might risk being being dropped as an adviser, but this approach with the right kind of president or vice president can also engender respect and a durable relationship.”
Source: On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
“It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.”
Source: Killosophy
“It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.”
Source: A Little Life
“It's a good thing Dieder and Zoe aren't in the same classroom. They'd alway be in trouble for talking to each other," Martha said.”
Source: Down the Aisle
“It’s a good thing I enjoy icing. Very much, in fact.” Luke replies, holding my gaze and smiling charmingly. I think I need water, a gulp of something to cool me down, because I’m no longer thinking of icing on a cupcake. The icing is all over me. And he’s … licking.”
Source: Sweet Bliss
“It's a good thing I love you, because you officially just scared the shit out of me."
"A good thing yea," Dante agreed, squeezing her hand before releasing it.
"She's not alone in those sentiments," the Morningstar said, "Except for the love. I make no clamis there yet, little creaw-Dante”
Source: Beneath the Skin
“It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!”
“It's a good thing they can get your hair big enough to hide the witch hat." Leo absentmindedly rolled up the cuff of his shirt, like he hadn't even noticed she was there.
Nina ignored how seeing a hint of his skin made her mouth twitch, just slightly. Stop drooling.
"Don't you want to use a little powder to take the shine off his cloven hooves?" Nina asked the makeup person, but she couldn't help but notice that Leo's lips twinged at her comment.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“It's a good thing to worry for someone, but don't make your concern their cause of new worry.”
“It's a good thing we're not the same size- or else I might be tempted to steal that dress.'
'Likely right off her,' Cassian muttered.
Mor's answering smirk wasn't reassuring.
But Nesta's face remained blank. Cold. She looked Mor up and down- noting the dress that exposed much of her midriff, back, and chest, then the flowing skirts with sheer panels that revealed glimpses of her legs. Scandalous, by human fashions. 'Fortunately for you,' Nesta said flatly, 'I don't return the sentiment.'
Azriel coughed into his wine.
But Nesta only walked to the table and claimed a seat.
Mor blinked, but confided to me with a wince, 'I think we're going to need a lot more wine.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by Mahaffey, p.231
On March 10, 1945, LeMay's XXI Bomber Command sent 334 B-29's to Tokyo, loaded with 1,669 tons of incendiary bombs. The resulting firestorm killed over 100,000 Japanese and injured over a million. A quarter of the industrial production in Tokyo was destroyed. (p.232, paraphrased)
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, killed around 120,000 Japanese. (Wikipedia)”
Source: Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
“It’s a good thing you all had a villain to help you pull together. Otherwise, I don’t know how you would have begun treating each other like human beings.”
Source: The Border
“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.”
Source: Revolution
“It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.”
Source: The Devil's Waltz
“It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.”
“It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.”
Source: Another Country
“It's a great day to design.”
“It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she said, for a moment scanning the dark night air and the empty street. A cricket chirped in the darkness. "God help you when you go to this ‘Havid.’ You will be so far away from us, from everything you know. You will be alone. What if something happens to you? Who’s going to help you? But you always wanted to be alone; you were always so independent, so stubborn."
"Like you.”
Source: From This Wicked Patch of Dust
“It's a great indy movie with many a spark,
Robert Downey Jr starring as Tony Stark.
Only that it didn't have the public recognition,
Now are the headlines about films in exhibition:
Many good movies with no channel to portrait
All end up with a few public to its own fate.
No need to say who made them obliterate.
(AnA Cross+Tic for Iron Man)”
Source: ACross Tic
“It’s a great metaphor. For what? I don’t know to this day. But I know it’s a great metaphor.”
“It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried burritos.
It's true that you can get away with drinking and smoking and sunbathing when you're in your teens and twenties, and it's true that rock stars are free to die at twenty-nine, but a lit star needs a long life.”
Source: How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
“It's a great shame, she thinks, that the heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, that it cannot know love without also knowing loss.”
Source: The Dress Shop of Dreams
“It's a great tale, one of a boy and a girl from opposite worlds who overcame immense hardship to built a life together.”
Source: The Last Tiger
“It's a great tragedy,
when love becomes sacrilege,
and hate is deemed sacred.
Love thy neighbor comes
with ethnic criteria,
while welfare comes with a price tag.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“It's a guy thing. We like euphemisms. He could just as easily have said doing the nasty, shagging, banging, screwing, humping, baking the potato, boning, boom-boom, four-legged foxtrot, glazing the donut, hitting a home run, launching the meat missile, makin' bacon, opening the gates of Mordor, pelvic pinochle, planting the parsnip, releasing the kraken, rolling in the hay, stuffin' the muffin, or two-ball in the middle pocket..." He trailed off when he noticed their shocked expressions. "Or sex," he added. "He could have just said that."
"No wonder you don't have a girlfriend." Layla gave him a withering look. "I can't imagine a woman who would stick around after you took her for a nice dinner and then said, Hey babe, let's go launch the meat missile , or my personal favorite, release the kraken."
"I didn't say I used them." Sam loosened his collar. Why was the restaurant so damn hot?
"You know them. That's bad enough."
Dilip tipped his head to the side. "What's a kraken?"
"That's what I'm going to do to Sam's head in about three seconds," Layla said.
Sam smirked. "A kraken is an enormous mythical sea monster."
"Are we in middle school?" Layla looked around the bare room in mock confusion. "Because I could swear you were just talking about the size of your-”
Source: The Marriage Game
“It’s a happy memory, the kind that almost sparkles. More proof that every problem could be solved with the right itinerary.
Everything turned out okay,I remember thinking. As long as we’re together, it always does.”
Source: Book Lovers
“It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.
In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.”
Source: Everything, Everything
“It's a hard thing, balancing your obligation to the family who supported you, who loves you, and the desires of your heart.”
Source: The Safeguarded Heart Complete Series
“It’s a hard thing—outlivin’ your loved ones. Outlivin’ your enemies, now that’s easy. A fella could do that all day long.”
Source: Fen and the Every Path
“It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.”
Source: Thirteenth Child
“It's a harmless breakfast."
"Nothing harmless about what he whips up. His parents are chefs, so he's picked up a few tips and anything he makes is beyond yummy."
"Uhm, you're not doing a good job talking me out of it,”
Source: From Fame to Shame
“It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“It’s a heaviness of ache than paralyzes me with this infernus warning. Below my eyes, I’m awaiting my imminent gnashing of teeth. Forbidden waters, my being needs no cleansing. Dead azure sky, God is unable to be seen. Heaven’s plague, All I see is deaf devotion. The man of stone, Religion was conceived by the infirmity of humanity. It’s all an apparition that arises from the root of decayed light. Alone -- for we are indeed the seed of nothingness.”
“It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift