I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.”
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
“It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”
“It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.”
Source: The Bone People: A Novel
“It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.”
“It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.”
“It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.”
“It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.”
Source: The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.”
“It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.”
“It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.”
“It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.”
“It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust
Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote.
That's what I consider real in this field of music,
Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it.
Non-conceptual, non-exceptional,
Everybody's either crime-related or sexual.
For those who pose lyrical, but really ain't true, I feel:
Their time's limited, hard rocks too.”
“It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.”
“It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.”
Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”
“It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.”
Source: Sigmar Polke: the three lies of painting
“It's the process, not the result.”
“It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.”
“It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.”
Source: Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up - ; The Last Post
“It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”
“It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.”
“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.”
“It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.”
“It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.”
“It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.”
“It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.”
“It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.”
“It's the reality of our business.”
“It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.”
“It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.”
“It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.”
“It's the reason why so many people left Britain like I did in the mid 60s because Britain was exactly the same then as America is today, getting ready to redistribute social wealth and it didn't work. You've seen that in places like Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland where the entire country's business has collapsed, gone bankrupt. That's where America is heading.”
“It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
“It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”
“It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up.”
“It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.”
“It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.”
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
“It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.”
“It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.”
“It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.”
Source: In the City of Shy Hunters
“It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.”
“It's the right time of the night for making love.”
“It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single story.”
“It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.”
“It's the role of the artist to pursue content”