All Quotes

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
‐‐ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
‐‐ Stockwell Day

It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.
‐‐ Dudley North

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
‐‐ O. Henry

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
‐‐ John McCarthy

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
‐‐ Pierre Loti

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
‐‐ David Brin

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
‐‐ Beatrix Potter

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.
‐‐ Jules Verne

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
‐‐ John Boyd Orr

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
‐‐ Anya Seton

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).
‐‐ James Gleick

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
‐‐ David Hume

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
‐‐ Rose Kennedy

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'
‐‐ Donald Hall

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
‐‐ Glynis Johns

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
‐‐ Christine Lavin

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
‐‐ Imelda Marcos

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
‐‐ Bill Pascrell

It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't.
‐‐ Mira Nair

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
‐‐ James Gleick

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
‐‐ Anton Seidl

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
‐‐ Jean Paul

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
‐‐ John Linder

It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.
‐‐ Gene Green

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
‐‐ Martin Van Creveld

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
‐‐ Mike Lee

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
‐‐ Francis Maude

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.
‐‐ Mark McKinney