I Quotes
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“It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.”
“It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.”
“It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.”
“It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.”
“It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.”
“It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?”
“It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go to the factory, which is like nobody's idea of fun. But it's mine.”
“It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces”
Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work
“It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.”
“It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.”
“It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.”
“It's the only way that I see that it can be done," McCain said. "Obviously, it has failed in the past, but I also notice there is a somewhat changed attitude on the part of the American people about this issue.”
“It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?”
“It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.”
“It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.”
“It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We can stay with the cops. We can introduce new worlds. And, who knows where it will end.”
“It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.”
“It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.”
“It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.”
“It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the situation, and then see how that character is going to react to that particular chaotic catastrophe. That's just my take on it, anyway. I don't really get too hung up on what the future of the show is.”
“It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.”
“It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and this fantastically hilarious and affecting book will have you on the edge of your seat.”
“It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.”
“It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.”
“It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.”
“It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.”
“It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.”
“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.”
“It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.”
“It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.”
“It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.”
“It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.”
Source: Married By Morning: Number 4 in series
“It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.”
“It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.”
“It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.”
“It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.”
“It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.”
“It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.”
“It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.”
“It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.”
“It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.”
“It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.”
“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”
“It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.”
Source: Lisey's Story: A Novel