I Quotes
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“It sounds otherworldly and mysterious, submerged under a bed of spacious texture. A place of awe where don't have answers to all of your questions.”
“It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.”
“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
Source: The Time Machine
“It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.”
“It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.”
“It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.”
“It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.”
“It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.”
“It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.”
“It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.”
“It sounds silly, I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie. Like a benevolent god, a good song will never let you down. And sometimes, when you're trying to find your way, one of those gods actually shows up and gives you directions.”
“It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.”
“It sounds so cheesy, even I don’t buy it. And it’s currently happening to me.”
Source: From What I Remember...
“It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.”
“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”
Source: Gigolo
“It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.”
“It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.”
“It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.”
“It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.”
“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.”
“It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.”
“It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.”
“It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)”
“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?”
“It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something about it."
"Thank you, Father Joe! I think I knew that once, but I'd forgotten. Contemptus mundi. We both have contempt for the world."
"You p-p-persist in your error, my son. Contemptus does not mean 'contempt.' It means 'detachment.' Are you detached from the things you satirize?”
Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.”
“It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.”
Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
“It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.”
“It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.”
“It sounds true as she says it, as certain as science. You can't always distinguish between reason and hope.”
Source: The Dreamers
“It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.”
“It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.”
“It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.”
“It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted you to now you can be anything.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.”
“It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.”
“It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut from it.
'I call that fanaticism of sympathy,' said Will, impetuously. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and then turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy - when you can. You are doing the most to save the earths character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight - in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery? I suspect that you have a false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom.”
“It spreads when we Spread it!”
“it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.”
“It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.”
“It stands in the Comitium
Plain for all folk to see;
Horatius in his harness,
Halting on one knee:
And underneath is written,
In letters all of gold,
How valiantly he kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Writings & Speeches Vol I
“It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love."”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“It stands to reason, if stress and sadness take it away, laughter can give it back”
“It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.”
“It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.”
Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
“It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.”
“It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.”
“It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.”
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.”