I Quotes
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“It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone”
“It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.”
“It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.”
“It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.”
“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.”
Source: Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga
“It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.”
“It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.”
“It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.”
“It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.”
“It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.”
Source: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
“It's a scary word, 'cancer.'”
“It's a sci-fi show on network television, and everybody knows that it's an amazing feat that we've been on for so many years. The fans, the press and everyone has been so incredibly kind and so incredibly supportive that we feel like it's a success, in any way, shape or form. It's an expensive canvas.”
“It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.”
“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
“It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.”
“It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.”
“It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won't commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange. In fact, it's a safe bet that you'll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won't allow yourself to receive what you don't feel you've earned. To receive life's bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.”
“It's a serve and pass game.”
“It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”
“It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.”
“It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.”
“It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.”
“It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)”
“It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!”
Source: Before I Die
“It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.”
“It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.”
“It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.”
“It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.”
“It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.”
Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series
“It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.”
Source: Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water
“It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.”
“It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.”
“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”
“It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.”
“It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.”
“It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.”
“It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.”
Source: Rama II
“It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.”
“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”
“It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.”
“It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.”
“It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.”
“It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.”
“It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.”
“It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It's a shame, really.”
“It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.”
Source: Speak
“It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.”
Source: Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!
“It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart”
“It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.”
“It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but I think America, the United States, we still have to deal with the issue of our original sin, which was slavery. And I think we're seeing the ramifications, the consequences, of not really facing the truth as to what we as a nation struggled towards. You know, struggled with and are still struggling and rectifying.”