I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It used to sadden me, these little breadcrumbs of life we once had and how we've had to patch ourselves back up. But it would be worse if we didn't have them, I suppose.”
Source: The Lamplighter
“It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.”
“It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.”
“It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.”
“It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.”
“It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.”
“It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.”
“It usually just comes to committing your whole day to the Lord from when you first wake up in the morning. Just being totally available to God and leaving the results to Him. We don't work for answers or trying to convince someone of something. It is just being available to share and leaving the results to God.”
“It usually seems best to be absent and slightly missed rather than present but distant.”
Source: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
“It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.”
“It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic.”
“It usually takes at least one person who knows what to do and how and is willing to go all the way with an underachieving person to reverse their underachievement.”
“It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.”
“It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.”
“It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.”
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
“It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones.”
“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.”
“It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.”
“It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.”
“It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.”
“It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.”
Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works
“It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
“It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.”
Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order
“It waits for the cruel flame; then it will recoil, curl up, blacken and scream to be blown away on the wind, another dead thing cast off by the wind of time.”
“It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged in wars. They smelled bad and were selfish and told lies, especially to themselves.”
Source: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
“It walks in the desert and dreams of a lake of blood.”
Source: The Wizard
“It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.”
Source: Pieces of Eight Pa
“It warmed her heart that true love was not a myth that was only found in fairy tales, old folk stories, and music songs but a living breathing entity and that she was privileged enough to witness it with her own eyes. In their love, they were contented with each other”
“It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.”
“It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully.”
“It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.”
“It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.”
“It was (Nick Frost's) first-ever bedroom scene and my first-ever bedroom scene...not that we were actually doing much, but we did have to lie sort of semi-nude under the sheets. And he was incredibly sort of vibrant and outgoing, but then he suddenly got very, like, 'I'm engaged and I'm getting married!' And I was, 'Okay, that's good. I just won't be touching you, then!'”
“It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.”
“It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.”
“It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.”
“It was 1924 and I was at Riverton again. All the doors hung wide open, silk billowing in the summer breeze. An orchestra perched high on the hill beneath the ancient maple, violins lilting lazily in the warmth. The air rang with pealing laughter and crystal, and the sky was the kind of blue we'd all thought the war had destroyed forever. One of the footmen, smart in black and white, poured champagne into the top of a tower of glass flutes and everyone clapped, delighting in the splendid wastage.
I saw myself, the way one does in dreams, moving amongst the guests. Moving slowly, much more slowly than one can in life, the others a blur of silk and sequins.
I was looking for someone.”
Source: The House at Riverton
“It was 1941. I was 18, and Peter, 21. We were young and old at the same time.”
Source: Flight of the Seahawks
“It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.”
“It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.”
“It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.”
“It was 1969, and for all the girls and women I knew, life changed profoundly in those four years of college. In 1965 we entered, most of us virginally, as freshmen in knee socks and loafers, looking for husbands and studying art history. We graduated in bell-bottoms and white armbands, taking the Pill and attempting to save the world.”
Source: Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS
“It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.”
“It was 1976.
It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how to use it. It had a belt with it that looked like a slingshot that possessed the jaw-dropping potential to pop a man's head like a gourd. As she stretched the belt between the fingers of her two hands, Mrs. Shimmer told us becoming a woman was a magical and beautiful experience.
I remember thinking to myself, You're damn right it had better be magic, because that's what it's going to take to get me to wear something like that, Tinkerbell! It looked like a saddle. Weighed as much as one, too. Some girls even cried.
I didn't.
I raised my hand.
"Mrs. Shimmer," I asked the cautiously, "so what kind of security napkins do boys wear when their flower pollinates? Does it have a belt, too?"
The room got quiet except for a bubbling round of giggles.
"You haven't been paying attention, have you?" Mrs. Shimmer accused sharply. "Boys have stamens, and stamens do not require sanitary napkins. They require self control, but you'll learn that soon enough."
I was certainly hoping my naughty bits (what Mrs. Shimmer explained to us was like the pistil of a flower) didn't get out of control, because I had no idea what to do if they did.”
Source: The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life