All Quotes

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
‐‐ Dan Rather

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'
‐‐ Michael Hayden

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
‐‐ Bainbridge Colby

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
‐‐ Thomas Heatherwick

An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.''
‐‐ Damian Lewis

An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
‐‐ Matthew Barney

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
‐‐ Jef Raskin

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
‐‐ Tina Fey

An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
‐‐ K. Eric Drexler

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

An interview is like a minefield.
‐‐ Michelle Williams

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
‐‐ Tori Amos

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
‐‐ Paul Samuelson

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
‐‐ Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
‐‐ Charles Kettering

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
‐‐ James Dyson

An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
‐‐ Diane Sawyer

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
‐‐ Donald Cram

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
‐‐ Eugene Fama

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
‐‐ Iain Sinclair

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
‐‐ Billy Bragg

An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
‐‐ Tracey Ullman

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
‐‐ Ice T

An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
‐‐ Larry King

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
‐‐ John Barrasso

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
‐‐ Peter Utley