I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's still difficult for me to watch my work.”
“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”
Source: White Teeth
“It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.”
Source: Poems
“It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.”
“It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.”
“It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.”
“It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Source: The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)
“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
“It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.”
“It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and championships have never boxed at Madison Square Garden. For a little kid just off a council estate to do it was a dream come true.”
“It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.”
“It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.”
“It's still pretty surreal. I wake up every day and just pinch myself and kind of think about how far I've come and all the stuff I have done.”
“It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.”
“It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.”
“It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.”
“It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.”
“It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.”
“It's still the same old story,
A fight for love and glory,
A case of do or die!
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.”
“It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.”
“It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.”
“It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.”
“It's still very relevant to how politics works within government, but in terms of the way into politics for an outsider, no, I don't think that would work. I don't know what would, other than... people are going online, and finding the single issue topics. I mean, look at the junior doctors' strike at the moment, or benefit cuts. That sort of cut across parties, and real pressure was felt in the government from inside and out.”
“It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.”
“It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.”
“It's strange because I'm a sex symbol to 14-year-old girls which I guess is not the most helpful situation to be in. But yeah, I've never really thought of it. It's just so funny. I mean, just last year I couldn't even get a date and then this year, the world turns and it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.”
“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.”
“It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”
“It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.”
“It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.”
Source: Chime
“It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.”
“It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love].”
“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.”
Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.”
“It's strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you're just like "WHATEVER! Why don't you send me an e-mail so I can delete it?"”
“It's strange how knowledge changes perception.”
“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.”
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
Source: Coffey's Hands
“It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.”
“It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking”
“It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.”
“It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.”
“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”