Top 100 All It Quotes
#1. Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
Alan Cranston
#2. Very slowly, he turned a full circle, taking in the nothingness of it all. It seemed his lungs could never be large enough to breathe in this much air, his eyes could never see this much space, nor could he near the full extent of the rolling, roaring ocean. For the briefest moment, he had no edges.
M.L. Stedman
#3. People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.
George Lucas
#4. Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
John Piper
#5. It's not about having it all. It's about having what you value most.
Jean Chatzky
#6. I killed him with my niblick, said Celia.
I nodded. If the thing was to be done at all, it was unquestionably a niblick shot.
P.G. Wodehouse
#7. The wave is born, and all it sees are other waves and feels these other waves are separate. But things are not as they seem. The wave is simply the ocean in specific expression. Once the life of the wave is over, it goes back to being the ocean. It was always the ocean.
Jeff Krasno
#8. You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.
Ann Herendeen
#9. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.
Sarah Siddons
#10. To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#11. You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.
Leslie Jamison
#12. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
Paul O'Grady
#13. How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.
John Lennox
#14. A garden is a grand teacher ... above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
#15. I guess that's the thing about people. We always assume their true personality is the one they show you, but sometimes all it takes is moving them to a new situation and a whole new side comes out. A
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#16. I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
Charlie Kaufman
#17. This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
Antonin Artaud
#18. Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
Graydon Carter
#19. I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.
Sandra Hochman
#20. This life of mine has been a little tough to negotiate the past two years. Not that everyone's isn't, after all, it wouldn't be called 'life' if a litte difficulty weren't automatically interferred. 'Super duper journey of progress and inspiration' maybe, but not 'life'.
Jennifer Howard
#21. What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.
Phyllis Schlafly
#22. Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude Debussy
#23. We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
Benji Madden
#24. What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
William S. Burroughs
#25. Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.
David Foenkinos
#26. If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.
George Carlin
#27. All it took was a couple weeks and boom--they sucked the crazy out of you and your soul went with it.
Dan Carr
#28. I hate this process. All it is is a confirmation of the superiority of the Golds. It takes all this to make me their physical equal. No wonder we serve them. It
Pierce Brown
#29. Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the whole Earth, yet this is all it leaves for certain in the mind. A bleak beauty, and an indelible fear.
Colin Thubron
#30. you can forget about the 'Well, where shall we go for dinner tonight?' routine and all it entails. If you really feel like a McDonald's fix - and you're in Paris - you just go.
Lionel Fisher
#31. If it isn't a choice,then it means you must be born a certain way,either gay or straight. If you are born that way,it must mean that god made you that way,which makes it unlikely that he would damn you to hell for it. After all,it would be technically his fault.
Eileen Cook
#32. Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.
Tristan Tzara
#33. They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.
Rajon Rondo
#34. Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.
Thomas Lennon
#35. For those living in a dark cave ... sometimes all it takes is for someone to throw us a lifeline.
Martin R. Lemieux
#36. Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.
Rowan Atkinson
#37. Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.
E. M. Forster
#38. I have observed over a long lifetime that mental stability is not all it's cracked up to be.
Neal Barrett Jr.
#39. After all, it wouldn't be the first time that I'd let a beautiful woman rip the molecules of my body apart, shoot them through a light beam, and throw them back together somewhere else for credits. But that's another story...
John Zakour
#40. There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven, in which the misfortune of one would stagger them all. It was a garment, this life. Its beauty outside, its warmth within.
James Salter
#41. I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.
George Best
#42. The title is Ulysses'
'Is it about the Odyssey?'
'No, it's about how prosaic life is today.'
'And so?'
'That's all. It says that our heads are full of nonsense. That we are flesh, blood, and bone. That one person has the same value as another. That we want only to eat, drink, fuck.
Elena Ferrante
#43. If it is art, it is not for all.
If it is for all, it is not art.
Schoenberg
#44. Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.
Jack McDevitt
#45. When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.
Matisyahu
#46. I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.
Dan Quayle
#47. Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.
Vladimir Nabokov
#48. You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.
Patty Hearst
#49. If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
Sargent Shriver
#50. Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it
Masaru Emoto
#51. Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???
After all it was a lie, you even "You said that this guy won't take you, but...
Deyth Banger
#52. Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
Grandmaster Flash
#53. I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year.
Adam Gopnik
#54. By some miracle, Charlotte's polite smile never wavered. It was a proud moment for her. After all, it wasn't every day that a little old lady told you right to your face that your bosom was as flat as a flounder.
Olivia Parker
#55. There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.
Oliver Goldsmith
#56. After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one's life to the light than to the dark.
Bella Forrest
#57. All it takes, is one leap of faith.
EK Dobbins
#58. Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise and it would not obey.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#59. I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.
Mario Balotelli
#60. If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Arnold Schoenberg
#61. Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.
Geoff Hamilton
#62. The way the San Francisco Bay's sun rises and falls ... It's splendor beauty is God's gift to us all. It's glorious colors brings great joy to me ... wish forever there my love and I could be. Peace and love in side of me it always brings. For whenever I see it's majestic sky ... My Heart Sings!
Timothy Pina
#63. You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.
A.D. Aliwat
#64. Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
Ally Carter
#65. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.
David Liss
#66. I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
Fred Rogers
#67. Failure isn't a necessary evil. In fact, it isn't evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.
Ed Catmull
#68. I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.
Beth Revis
#69. Life is like the flappy bird game. There's no pause nor another chance to live after dying and there could be endless obstacles. After all, it is just a matter of patience and perseverance to get a higher score.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
#70. Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
Henri Poincare
#71. You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits have tried to write it off as a bunch of cranks or something. But, in fact, it's really a very legitimate and fairly significant swath of voters out there.
Mark McKinnon
#72. Why is human cloning illegal? All it is is making a certain type of person on purpose. Can they possibly be any worse than the assholes we're pumping out by accident?
Richard Jeni
#73. CIOs may not be the subject matter expert of all IT domains, but they should understand technology enough to ensure they have a keen sense of judgment on the priorities for IT investment.
Pearl Zhu
#74. After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.
Jimmy Choo
#75. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#77. Cassia doesn't like to sort people. I'm all too good at it and I worry I'll grow to like it too much.It's a talent.[...]And all it takes is a misstep or two for that talent to become a liability instead of an asset.
Ally Condie
#78. After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
Candace Bushnell
#79. If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.
Todd Rundgren
#80. Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
Jacqueline Carey
#81. I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does.
Colin Munroe
#82. Then you shall judge yourself," answered the king. "That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#83. But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.
Sally Gardner
#84. I'm allowed to milk it for all it's worth for sympathy points and cookies and stuff." "You want cookies?" "I think they would help with the healing process." "I'll bake you some cookies.
Tiffany Reisz
#85. My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.
Adrian Belew
#86. It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
Sarah Addison Allen
#87. If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.
Simon Bird
#88. The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.
Meher Baba
#89. Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
Scott Westerfeld
#90. All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.
Zoe Weil
#91. It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all ... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.
Phil Schiller
#92. Grandpa had told him some of the same stories when he was a kid, and they weren't lies, exactly, but exaggerated versions of the truth - because the story of Grandpa Portman's childhood wasn't a fairy tale at all. It was a horror story.
Ransom Riggs
#93. All things pass ... Patience attains all it strives for.
Teresa Of Avila
#95. When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
Blake Mycoskie
#96. Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime ... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.
Ingrid Weir
#97. I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.
Cain Velasquez
#98. Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
David Schwimmer
#99. But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
#100. When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
Mignon McLaughlin
