I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.”
“It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.”
“It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.”
“It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.”
“It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.”
“It’s been a whole day since I last killed someone, and I’m getting antsy. (Maxis)”
“It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.”
“It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtn’t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. I’ve got to see it through, don’t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because she’s missing the part of her that’s me. We’ve got to come together again. And he can’t do a thing about that.”
“It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.”
“It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt”
“It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.”
“It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.”
“It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects our lifestyle, so that if we don’t believe that we can help ourselves, we probably cannot. If we don’t believe that positive information is useful to our health and well being, it probably won’t be.”
“It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.”
“It’s being reported that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September. And that’s just people leaving the White House.”
“It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.”
“It’s best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia.” {Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.}”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.”
“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“It’s better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men.”
“It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.”
“It’s better to look at the sky than live there”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.”
“It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.”
“It’s better to please God and have a few people upset with you than to please people and have God upset with you.”
“It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.”
“It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“It’s better to wear out than rust out.”
Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.”
“It’s broke again, akri. The man downstairs done said that the Simi can’t charge nothing else until I’m not over my limit no more. I don’t know what that means, but I don’t like it. Fix it, akri, or else I might eat him. The Simi gots needs and I needs my plastic to work. (Simi)”
“It’s brown.” So maybe I had the teeniest, tiniest, most infinitesimal amount of auburn in my hair. I was still a brunette. “It’s the lighting,” I said. “Yeah, maybe it’s the lightbulbs.” His smile brought up both sides of his mouth, and a dimple surfaced.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.”
Source: Room: Picador Classic
“It’s called the pursuit of perfection. The pursuit is the idea that you’ll never be perfect in gymnastics but you can continue to pursue it as long as you’re doing it. I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect in gymnastics. It’s just one of those sports that you’re always trying to improve and pursue that perfection.”
“It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest. “I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.” “I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?” “The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.”
Source: Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...”
“It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.”
“It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.”
“It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.”
Source: #Girlboss
“It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.”
“It’s crazy. Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women... f**king idiot-ass men keep saying that women aren't funny. It makes me crazy. I find it disgusting and offensive every time.”
“It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.”
“It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.”
“It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here”
“It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.”
Source: The Holiness of God
“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.”
“It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.”
“It’s difficult to create fashion, you can’t just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.”