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 same world, and only separated by what you physically see. Just because you do not see a male sex worker trying to sell himself on the strip or in the casino, doesn't mean he has not participated on the down low.”
“It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.”
“It's the scariest thing in the world, going to acting class, because first of all, there's a lot of pressure. I just go back to being that fourth grader who couldn't, like, sit still in her seat.”
“It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.”
Source: Six Earlier Days
“It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.”
“It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?”
“It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”
“It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.”
“It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.”
“It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.”
“It's the sick and twisted male fantasy that we want classy ladies out in the world that make us look good, but in the bedroom, men want subservient women who please all of their whims. It's the typical bullshit of male ego.”
“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.”
Source: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds
“It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.”
Source: The Chemical Garden Series Books 1-3: Wither, Fever, Sever
“It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.”
“It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.”
Source: Alien cargo
“It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.”
“It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.”
Source: Look Again
“It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.”
“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”
“It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.”
“It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares”
“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.”
“It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.”
“It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.”
“It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.”
“It's the start that stops most people.”
“It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”
Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose
“It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about”
“It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!”
“It's the story that counts.”
“It's the strange world.' 'The strangest.”
“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.”
“It's the struggle that makes you triumphant.”
“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.”
“It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.”
“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”
Source: For The Win
“It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.”
“It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.”
“It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.”
“It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.”
“It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.”
“It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.”
“It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.”
Source: Ender's Game
“It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.”
“It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.”
“It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.”
“It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.”
“It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do”