I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.”
Source: Good in Bed
“It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.”
“It's as if there's a magnet on the outside of the posts and bar.”
“It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.”
Source: Love Wins and The Love Wins Companion
“It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.”
“It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.”
Source: Ford County
“It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.”
“It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.”
“It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.”
Source: Graceling
“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”
Source: Every Day
“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.”
Source: Every Day
“It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.”
“It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.”
“It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that it then projects or smears, as it were, over what impinges upon it from the outside. This is not the image you find in, for example, Chuang Tzu: minds and nature are inseparably fused in an ever-changing whole of experience that, so to speak, constantly wells up from an indescribable source in a process that Daoists call 'the way' or 'the course'.”
“It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.”
“It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.”
Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard
“It's as interesting to me as someday getting to play in some beautiful period piece where the costumes are from a completely different era. This feels as extreme as that, and that's really liberating. It's really liberating to just go 180 from what my life is like. I love that! I love not having to think about clothes. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"”
“It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.”
“It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.”
“It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming.”
“It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.”
“It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and it's rhythmic, maybe I just write a song to that.”
“It's as simple as something that nobody knows.”
“It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.”
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.”
“It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.”
“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”
Source: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings
“It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.”
“It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.”
“It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”
“It's as though Trump has the charisma, the pied-piper effect, and could lead the whole nation off the cliff, and they would think they were on the way to Disney World.”
“It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.”
“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.”
Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel
“It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.”
“It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.”
“It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.”
“It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.”
“It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.”
“It's astonishing how quickly cultural references change. Each new generation of parents grows up with a new slate of cultural understanding, television shows, and unique parental issues. The biblical principles remain the same, however, so this was a slight reworking, not a major overhaul.”
“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
Source: Endless night
“It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.”
“It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.”
“It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type."”
“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”
“It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.”