I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.”
“It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.”
“It's animal by animal that you save a species.”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”
Source: Annie on My Mind
“It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.”
“It's annoying when people confuse you with the character.”
“It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.”
“It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.]”
“It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it.”
“It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.”
“It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.”
“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”
“It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.”
“It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.”
“It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.”
“It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.”
“It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.”
“It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.”
“It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.”
“It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.”
“It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.”
“It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.”
Source: Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back
“It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.”
“It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'”
“It's art that's taught me to think and to write.”
“It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.”
Source: Making Movies
“It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.”
“It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.”
“It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.”
Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.”
“It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.”
Source: Before I Die
“It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”
“It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.”
“It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.”
“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.”
Source: Enchantment
“It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.”
“It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.”
“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.”
“It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.”
Source: Leaving Paradise
“It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.”
Source: Conversations with Gloria Naylor
“It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.”
“It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.”
Source: How To Save A Life
“It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.”
Source: I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
“It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.”
Source: Making History
“It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.”
Source: Friend of my youth: stories