I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.”
“It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.”
“It's only a house when it's filled with people you love.”
“It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire”
“It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.”
“It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”
“It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.”
“It's only a must-win game if you need to win it”
“It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.”
“It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?”
“It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.”
“It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.”
Source: Horde
“It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.”
“It's only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones.”
“It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.”
“It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.”
Source: Lost Light
“It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.”
“It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.”
“It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.”
Source: Engleby: A Novel
“It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.”
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
“It's only after you get down into the technical weeds - and they are admittedly rather weedy - that it becomes clear that this is much harder than it seems and not something we're going to be able to solve.”
“It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
“It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.”
“It's only arrogance if you're wrong.”
“It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.”
“It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.”
“It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but to wait.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
Source: Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)
“It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.”
“It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.”
“It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.”
“It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.”
Source: Every Last One: A Novel
“It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!”
“It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.”
Source: China Court
“It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.”
“It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.”
“It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.”
“It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.”
“It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.”
“It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but... I won't leave or let you leave either. If you can fight that cursed fairy drink, you can certainly overcome any advantage being an Alpha gives me if you really want to. No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.”
“It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.”
“It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write”
“It's only forever... Not long at all.”
“It's only game. Why you have to be mad?”
“It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”
Source: Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)
“It's only happened to me once [crying in the end of the film] - the end of Forrest Gump. I think it's sad because the moral of the film is that you can have no brain whatsoever and still make it in this world. That made me terribly depressed.”
“It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty