All Quotes

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.
‐‐ Konstantinos Karamanlis

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.
‐‐ Chen Long

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
‐‐ James Joyce

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.
‐‐ Richard Attenborough

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
‐‐ Jerry Leiber

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
‐‐ Erica Jong

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
‐‐ Jean Racine

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
‐‐ Kara Swisher

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.
‐‐ Helen Sharman

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.
‐‐ George Morgan

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
‐‐ Jef I. Richards

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
‐‐ Morris Hite

Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not.
‐‐ Danny Rimer

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
‐‐ Tatyana Ali

Is an artist much more than a beggar?
‐‐ Clara Schumann

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
‐‐ Spike Jonze

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
‐‐ Philip Roth

Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
‐‐ Johann Most

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
‐‐ Johann Most

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
‐‐ Persius

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee

Is anything accidental?
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
‐‐ Saint Bernard

Is anything worth it?
‐‐ Mary Boykin Chesnut

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
‐‐ Spike Jonze

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?
‐‐ Corrine Brown

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
‐‐ Freddie Mercury

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
‐‐ Arthur Helps

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America's long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In other words, I look for aliens, and when I tell people that at a cocktail party, they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face. I try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate.
‐‐ Seth Shostak