I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.”
“It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.”
“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
“It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.”
“It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.”
“It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.”
“It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.”
“It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.”
“It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth”
Source: Elia Kazan: A Life
“It's difficult. You tell yourself that, but you don't believe it. You always feel like there's another game. You know, the reality is, it's do or die. And I think I'm going to play like that.”
“It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.”
“It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.”
“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.”
“It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.”
“It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”
Source: J
“It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.”
“It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.”
“It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.”
“It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.”
“It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.”
“It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.”
“It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.”
“It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop does not count as an artist.”
“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”
“It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.”
“It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be”
“It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel about the Iraq War, Fobbit steps into the political conversation. There's no way to avoid that. I can appreciate that readers are probably going to line up on one side of the novel or the other. I hope they go to those polar extremes, actually.”
“It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.”
“It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.”
“It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.”
“It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?”
“It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.”
“It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.”
Source: The Running Dream
“It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are”
“It's dogged as does it.”
“It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.”
“it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.”
Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle
“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”
“It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.”
“It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!”
Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated
“It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken,
And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.'
Pigs on parade, but bacon fryin' and cookin',
Cause kids' tired of dyin' and walkin' round like they shooken.”
“It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.”
“It's early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.”
“It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.”
Source: Half Blood Blues
“It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading.”
“It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.”
“It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.”
Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction