I Quotes
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“It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.”
Source: The Duke And I
“It's the cynics who never get married.”
“It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.”
“It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.”
“It's the deepest relationship between Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino Garavani I've ever seen, and no one's ever really scratched the surface with them. They weren't really openly gay. They're in Rome, the city of the Vatican. They didn't discuss this relationship, which I think is one of the great relationships. It's beyond a marriage; it defies words. But maybe it doesn't defy pictures.”
“It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.”
“It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.”
“It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.”
“It's the Democrat Party that is destroying the integrity of the American electoral system. It's not Vladimir Putin. It's not Dmitry Medvedev. It's the Democrat Party, which has sought to destroy the integrity of the American electoral system, all because they're a bunch of spoilsports who lost the election.”
“It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.”
“It's the Democrats' same old weakness: much too much dependency on consultants and TV ads rather than mobilizing people.”
“It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.”
“It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance”
Source: Baudelaire: Introduced and edited by Francis Scarfe, with plain prose translations of each poem
“It's the Devil's way now,
There is no way out,
You can scream and you can shout,
It is too late now.”
“It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present - regardless of the outcome in the present. A pamphlet, on the other hand, is completely concerned with affecting an outcome in the present, the most immediate present.”
“It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.”
“It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer. If someone hunts a lion, it's like: "Wow, they're brave!" But if they're hunting a deer it's like: "That poor deer!" I know that. I know that guys getting killed is horrible but people have seen it before. You've seen The Evil Dead. With girls, it's like: "I don't want to see that happening..." I know that.”
“It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some bitter stranger on the Internet. What my dad said to me was the kind of criticism where I was like, "Oh, my God, I'm on the wrong track." I'm so grateful to him for doing that. He was such a no-nonsense guy in that sense.”
“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”
“It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.”
“It's the digital era. What makes it exciting is that it's both the Golden Age of television and the Wild West of television. Something is happening now that's unprecedented, and we know that we're a part of it. What could be more exciting or better than that? You can't lose because you're on the pony and you're staking the claim.”
“It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.”
“It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.”
“It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.”
“It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.”
“It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.”
“It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.”
“It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.”
“It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.”
“It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.”
“It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.”
Source: Even the wicked: a Matthew Scudder novel
“It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.”
“It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.”
“It's the economy, stupid.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995
“It's the effort, not the results that matter.”
Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.”
“It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.”
“It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.”
“It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.”
Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of”
“It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.”
“It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for.”
“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”
“It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, "people," because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.”
“It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.”
“It's the excitement of being on the frontier.”
“It's the execution that matters, never the idea.”
“IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”
Source: The Folklore of Discworld
“It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.”