I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.”
“It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are”
“It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom”
“It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
“It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.”
“It's all too much and not enough at the same time.”
“It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.”
“It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.”
Source: Blood and Guts in High School
“It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.”
“It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?”
“It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.”
“It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.”
“It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.”
“It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.”
“It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.”
“It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.”
“It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.”
“It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?”
Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer
“It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?”
“It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?”
Source: My Mortal Enemy
“It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.”
“It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?”
Source: Bookends
“It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.”
Source: Sea Storm
“It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.”
“It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.”
Source: Life Among Giants: A Novel
“It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.”
“It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.”
“It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.”
“It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.”
“It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.”
“It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.”
“It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.”
Source: The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son
“It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.”
“It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.”
Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series
“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”
“It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.”
“It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.”
“It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.”
“It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.”
Source: The Turtle Diary
“It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.”
“It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.”
“It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.”
“It's almost embarrassing to be out in public and someone comes up to you and says, 'My mother had the same thing you did.' What do you say? I don't know what to say to make them feel better about their situation.”