All Quotes

It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong

It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
‐‐ Lucy Maud Montgomery

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
‐‐ Guy Finley

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds.
‐‐ Ross Kemp

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.
‐‐ Shane McAnally

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
‐‐ Garcelle Beauvais

It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
‐‐ Adrian Edmondson

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
‐‐ Linda Lingle

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
‐‐ Yves Saint Laurent

It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
‐‐ Eric Holder

It pays to be a fee fiend.
‐‐ Suze Orman

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

It pays to get drunk with the best people.
‐‐ Joe E. Lewis

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.
‐‐ Mark Rydell

It pleases me that people can be interactive.
‐‐ Tracey Emin

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
‐‐ Mal Peet

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.
‐‐ Fred Melamed

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
‐‐ David Chalmers

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
‐‐ Michael East

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
‐‐ Robert Bolt

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
‐‐ Orville Redenbacher

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.
‐‐ Renny Harlin

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.
‐‐ Jenna Elfman

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
‐‐ Dave Obey

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
‐‐ Glenn Close

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
‐‐ Frances Farmer

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
‐‐ Dougray Scott

It rained a lot in New Hampshire, and when I skied, the snow was icy and hard, and the mountains were small.
‐‐ Mikaela Shiffrin

It raises questions about the natural instincts of Clinton that, when confronted with a serious domestic political scandal, she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese, et cetera.
‐‐ Julian Assange

It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
‐‐ Paul Goodman

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher