Quotes starting with I Page 8978

Source: Me: Stories of My Life

“It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all”

“It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”

Life Figures Inspire Beast Climbs Sisterhood

Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

“It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.”

Ifs Running Song Names Fans Band Aspect Heavy Pops Rap Lifestyle Likes Metals Secretary Zeppelins Heavy Metal Pop Song Metal Fans Run Dmc

Author:Rob Zombie

“It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”

Ruins

Author:Dan Wells

“It's like 60 Minutes on acid.”

Minutes Acid

Author:David Byrne

“It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.”

Secret Plans Trump Defeat Isis

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It's like a banana farm for guns!”

Gun Farms Bananas

Author:Brandon Sanderson

Source: Steelheart

“It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.”

Bears Painful Stuck Horrible Inevitable Honey Awkward Delicious Stumbling Beehives Cache

Author:Leonard Cohen

“It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.”

Play Together Actors Literature Issues Produce Pressure Surprise Everyday Casts Opening Working Together Curtains Under Pressure

Author:David Talbot

“It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.”

Want Children Used Asks Nervous Ice Confused Cream Ice Cream Intriguing

Author:Arsene Wenger

“It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.”

Way Plans Shoes Defeat Crush Cockroaches

Author:Rick Yancey

Source: The 5th Wave

“It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.”

World Behinds Poverty Illness Obedience Hospitals Vow Chastity

Author:Carolyn Wheat

“It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn't do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere.”

Ifs Jobs Fighting Actors Hurt Plans Involved Messed Up Screwed Up Choreographers

Author:Bryan Cranston

“It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.”

Dream About Yourself Dreams Come True

Author:Kevin Smith

“It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Dream Song Heard Pops

Author:Tyler Hilton

“It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.”

Years Dream Teach Couple Spain

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference.”

Feelings Differences Drug Making A Difference

Author:Richard Ben Cramer

“It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.”

Responsibility Fugue

Author:David Foster Wallace

“It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.”

Water Careers Garden Our Relationship Do The Best

Author:Jewel

“It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.”

Way Together Lord Sitting Add Bottom Settling Awe Shakes Ingredients Bottles Reverence Shelves Flavor Dressings Salad Jars Seasoning Salad Dressing

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.”

Long Moving Walks Week Streets Everyday Boring Fishing Los Angeles Village Jungle Sunny Huts

Author:Truman Capote

Source: Conversations with Capote

“It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.”

Ifs Knows Mean Littles Turns Wish Bits Depression Little Bit Pressure Holes Steam Kettles

Author:Frank Bruno

“It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.”

Thinking Heart Kind Littles Dream Kids Girl Quality Ridiculous Like Me American Dream Childlike Barbie Kid At Heart

Author:Paris Hilton

“It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.”

I Can Color Taste Rainbow Koalas

Author:Paul Becker

“It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already a lot of children from different ethnic backgrounds so the reality is there. I don't have to shove it in people's face. It's just there and it's normal.”

People Looks Children Different Real Reality School Faces Class Normal Real Life Backgrounds Odd Bureaucracy Laboratory Ethnic Background

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Might Song Groups Rocks Folks Pops Merry Merry Christmas Christmas Eve Folk Songs

Author:Nick Lowe

“It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.”

Kids Laughing Died

Author:Paul McCartney

“It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.”

Thinking Knows Wells Magic Photograph You Think You Know

Author:Chuck Close

“It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so much. I'm privileged. I'm privileged to be on stage with them. That's all I can say. They're extremely generous. There are no egos in the room at all.”

I Can Three Hours Rooms Acting Class Stage Masters Ego Generous Privileged

Author:Sean Mahon

“It's like a mathematical law, Grace.”

Law Science Grace Mathematics Mathematical

Author:Paul Auster

Source: Oracle Night

“It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.”

Care Pain Mother Suffering Compassion Cry Baby Arms Anxiety Picks Embrace Take Care Relief Like A Mother

Author:Nhat Hanh

“It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Left Loses Talent Fields Musical Edges Make Sense Novelists Over The Edge Left Field Musical Talent

Author:Johnny Cash

“It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.”

Different Dangerous Integrity Hip Hop Rap Accountability Paradox Being Popular

Author:Ice T

“It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.”

Knows Feels Asking Meat Going Out Caves How You Feel Reflexes Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Author:Fred Ward

“It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.”

Thinking Writing Seems Energy Stars Gone Quiet Gathering Unwilling Participants

Author:Richard Bach

“It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and when I start to ski that rhythm and I start to really link my turns together, all of a sudden there's so much flow and power that I just can't help but feel amazing. That's where the joy comes from.”

Feels I Can Helping Together Joy Song Turns Painting Flow Rhythm Links Puzzles Skis

Author:Mikaela Shiffrin

“It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.”

Together Individual Balance Coaches Insane Puzzles

Author:Emma Stone

“It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.”

Thinking Way I Can Care Don't Care I Don't Care Organs Blades Kill Me Razors Shredding

Author:Lauren Oliver

“It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.”

Feels Firsts Self Helping Stuff Challenges Race Dad Lucky Conscious Amazed Ignored Self Conscious Relays Being Ignored Relay Races

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Team Youth Balance Finals Cups Better Off Monarchy Rugby World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Prince William

“It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.”

Training Runners Swimmer

Author:Burton Cummings

“It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?”

I Can Fighting Strong Spells Love Always

Author:Lian Hearn

Source: Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori

“It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.”

Spiritual Player Stage Becoming Instruments Elevation Becoming One

Author:Matt Nathanson

“it's like a squid in love with the sky.”

Sky Squids

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.”

Tragedy Diagrams

Author:Sara Zarr

“It's like a visual connection between the girl I'm shooting and me, a bunch of triggers. A lot of girls I'll just shoot once or twice, but with certain special ones I'll go a bit further.”

Girl Special

Author:Richard Kern

“It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.”

Whole Jazz Piano Orchestra Piano Music

Author:Dave Brubeck

“It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.”

Feels Believe I Can Whole I Believe Instruments Piano Orchestra

Author:Dave Brubeck

“It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!”

Needs Girl Can Do Candle Electricity Timeless You Can Do It Primal Birthright

Author:Tracey Ullman

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