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 good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.”
“It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.”
“It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of getting cut off. Scholars should write, at least sometimes, for the general public.”
“It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.”
Source: In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey
“It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”
“It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.”
“It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something”
“It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.”
“It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.”
Source: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
“It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.”
Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel
“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.”
“It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.”
“It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.”
“It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.”
“It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.”
“It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish.
So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then
Just think, you'll be 70
In just those short years, numbering ten”
“It's a good time for black people to be alive.”
“It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.”
“It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.”
“It's a good time to be a woman.”
“It's a good time to be CM Punk right now.”
“It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.”
“It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say, "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith, Joe. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your own ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness' sake."”
“It's a good world if you don't weaken.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Brighton rock
“It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.”
Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies
“It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.”
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.”
“It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.”
“It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.”
“It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.”
“It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.”
“It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.”
“It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.”
Source: The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters
“It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.”
“It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.”
“It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.”
“It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.”
“It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!”
“It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.”
“It's a great day for Sarah Palin. She was hired as a commentator for Fox News. She signed a multi-year contract, which means she'll probably quit after a year.”
“It's a great day for TWA.”
“It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.”
“It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.”
“It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.”
“It's a great day. Now, go make it that way.”
“It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner”
“It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.”