I Quotes
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“It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.”
“It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.”
Source: Runaway
“It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.”
“It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,” said Gideon. “Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.”
Source: The Ruby Red Trilogy
“It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.”
“It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.”
“It’s funny, I started by making fake American movies, The Transporter and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.”
“It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened”
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels
“It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.”
“It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.”
“It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?”
“It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”
Source: For One More Day
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”
Source: From Caucasia, with Love
“It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.”
“It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.”
“It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.”
“It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.”
“It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.”
“It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.”
“It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.”
“It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.”
Source: God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir
“It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.”
“It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.”
Source: Rosie Dunne
“It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.”
“It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball”
“It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of skin’s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek”
Source: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
“It’s hard not to root for Henrik Lundqvist, he’s practically perfect.”
“It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.”
“It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.”
“It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.”
Source: Ironside
“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
“It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.”
“It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.”
Source: Women: A Novel
“It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.”
“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”
“It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.”
“It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.”
“It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.”
“It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.”
Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
“It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.”
“It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.”
“It’s hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long...”
“It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.”
“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
Source: Joyland
“It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.”
Source: Red Glove
“It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.”
“It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.”
“It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.”
Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel