I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?”
“It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control.”
“It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.”
“It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.”
Source: Among Others
“It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.”
Source: The client: the street lawyer
“It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.”
“It's amazing how low you go to get high.”
Source: Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
“It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.”
“It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.”
“It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is not costing anyone anything.”
“It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.”
“It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.”
“It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.”
“It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.”
“It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.”
“It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.”
“It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?”
“It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.”
“It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”
Source: Confess: A Novel
“It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.”
“It's amazing how much of that music I still listen to actually. I was such a fan of music, even after I got started professionally I remained a fan. But what happens when you're so involved is you start spending all your time based on the music that you're involved with, you just don't have as much time.”
“It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.”
“It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.”
“It's amazing how much punishment we can take.”
Source: Exit Ghost
“It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.”
“It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.”
“It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.”
“It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.”
“It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.”
“It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.”
Source: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
“It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“It's amazing how people can surprise you.”
“It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.”
“It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.”
“It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.”
“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
Source: Peeps
“It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.”
“It's amazing how quickly things start to change when you haven't slept. Your memory goes. Physically, you don't feel well. Emotionally, you're all over the place - you know, if you miss one night of sleep. You can only imagine five nights of not sleeping. I was in an alternate state of reality.”
“It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.”
“It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.”
“It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.”
Source: The Dud Avocado
“It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.”
Source: Open House: A Novel
“It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.”
“It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.”
“It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.”
Source: Any human heart: a novel
“It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.”
“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
“It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.”
“It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.”