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 pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.”
“It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.”
“It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.”
“It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.”
“It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's not something you can legislate. It's that you're giving me the best bread I ever had and I'm so happy to give you money for it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than stand in line and give money for your bread.”
“It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.”
“It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.”
“It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.”
Source: Broken Homes
“It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.”
“It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.”
“It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.”
Source: Further Up the Organization
“It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.”
Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution
“It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin”
“It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.”
Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
“It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.”
Source: The life and writings of Frederick Douglass
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
“It's a poor thing to be sane!”
“It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.”
Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.”
“It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.”
“It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!”
Source: Savva and the Life of Man: Two Plays by Leonid Andreyev
“It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.”
“It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.”
“It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.”
“It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.”
“It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.”
“It's a presidential [election] year [2016], certainly everyone is talking about it, but if the history of the show tells us anything, the Big Brother cast does not usually discuss political issues like that in the house.”
“It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.”
“It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.”
“It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.”
“It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.”
“It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.”
“It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.”
“It's a pretty crazy thing in which I tried to make songs, real songs, not the quick stuff like on a tape. A dose of Kendrick Lamar, a dose of J. Cole... because it's got to be an album that goes [in the] club.”
“It's a pretty frantic world that we live in”
“It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.”
“It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.”
“It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually proud of. We're pretty lucky, because a lot of bands come out with their first record on a label and they're forced to make decisions they might not stand behind because someone's telling them it's a good idea. We didn't have to do that. I think that's one of the things I'm most thankful for.”
“It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.”
“It's a pretty humiliating thing when you get picked last every day in gym class and then at lunchtime all the kids play sports and you get picked last. At the time I just thought, "This is awful," because it defines you as a weak person. It defines you with girls and if you're bad at sports, you get into this funny cycle where the ball never gets to you because now you're in the worst position, you're in deep right field, so you can never prove that you got better, so the cycle lasts forever.”
“It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.”
“It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.”
“It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.”
“It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.”
“It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.”
“It's a privilege and not a right to own a business.”
“It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.”
“It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.”