All Quotes

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.
‐‐ Hal Roach

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.
‐‐ John Gokongwei

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
‐‐ Sandro Veronesi

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
‐‐ Dave Foley

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.
‐‐ Eli Pariser

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
‐‐ Mark Shields

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
‐‐ Andy Williams

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
‐‐ Mike Rounds

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
‐‐ George Eliot

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
‐‐ James Wolfe

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
‐‐ Nelson Algren

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.
‐‐ Nik Wallenda

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
‐‐ Storm Jameson

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
‐‐ Harold H. Greene

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.
‐‐ Mian Muhammad Mansha

The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
‐‐ Pierre Schaeffer

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
‐‐ Robin Williams

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
‐‐ John Locke

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
‐‐ Albert Murray

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
‐‐ Saint Bernard

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.
‐‐ Arthur Ganson

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
‐‐ Daniel Bell

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
‐‐ Richard Wright

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
‐‐ Joan Didion

The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
‐‐ Kenneth Kaunda

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.
‐‐ Eli Broad

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
‐‐ Eric Holder

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
‐‐ Sam Kean

'The Inbetweeners' would have been a success with a totally different cast because the scripts are good - so while we were fortunate enough to be cast in it, we feel we still have a lot to prove.
‐‐ Simon Bird

The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It's about emotional privacy, having a self.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
‐‐ Arthur Middleton

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
‐‐ James Martineau

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn