Top 100 Are They Quotes
#1. You've seen, like, movies. Of kisses, right? Your lips need to be, like, wanting to be kissed."
Blue touched her mouth. "What are they doing now?"
"Like, bracing themselves.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
Kate Williams
#3. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
George Carlin
#4. They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I
Kristin Hannah
#5. You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs?
Noel Fielding
#6. Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
Samuel I. Prime
#7. Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.
Virginia Postrel
#8. The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.
Antwone Fisher
#9. I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
Iris Apfel
#10. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.
J.W. Lord
#11. Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.
Scarlett Johansson
#12. Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
Benedict Of Nursia
#13. The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
Neel Mukherjee
#14. The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
Karen White
#15. The fears and doubts I have are so real, so are they really as childish and silly as you always say they are.
Lynette Ferreira
#16. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens
#17. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
L.M. Montgomery
#18. What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators ... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?
Jesse Ventura
#19. I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.
Jim Butcher
#20. The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.
Will Smith
#21. Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
Peter Mullan
#22. These vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
John Geddes
#23. What are they fighting about?"
Julian could take his guesses. "I would say Grady wants to shoot me. Garrett is telling him no, too much paperwork.
Abigail Roux
#24. I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.
Eric Massa
#25. As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?
Ruba Nadda
#26. The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?
William Shakespeare
#27. Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren't flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.
Craig Hart
#28. The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
Bill Drayton
#29. Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
Alex Ferguson
#30. You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they.
J.D. Mader
#31. The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?
Erlend Loe
#32. As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable ... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
Ellen Stofan
#33. Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
Honore De Balzac
#34. The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. ... where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings? (pp.281-82)
Sarah Turnbull
#35. How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.
Nina Berberova
#37. They rule, not because they want to, but because they are; they are not at liberty to play second.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Where did you get them? Are they Stuart Weitzman? Prada Summer Collection?'
'Um, New Look, I think,' Lara told him.
Lola Salt
#39. How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.
Carole Maso
#40. The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?
Alison Owen
#41. Giannine
What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?
Vivian Vande Velde
#42. Are they supposed to cry so much and giggle every second when they're not crying? They never quit finding something so funny that I thought it'd break my eardrums a few times.
Mary Connealy
#43. When someone out there says that I'm not really human - what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?
Carrie Vaughn
#44. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
Ann Coulter
#45. I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.
Elias Koteas
#46. You see people on the street, talking to themselves, and you're like, 'What are they talking about?' I'm interested in that.
Silas Weir Mitchell
#47. I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.
Jacquelyn Jablonski
#48. Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John Lothrop Motley
#49. Why we don't feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day?
Are they useless or too many?
We humans must realize it before it is too late.
M.F. Moonzajer
#50. Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone
#51. For one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?
Parke Godwin
#52. I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?
Amy Reed
#53. I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
Dwight Henry
#54. The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants. When we look to individuals we always find it so, though it hardly suits us to admit as much when we discuss these subjects broadly.
Anthony Trollope
#55. We're all human beings, and we all have the same problems. I do remember how blessed I am, and no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.
Khloe Kardashian
#56. So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
Luis Gutierrez
#57. Don't be embarrassed of who you are, they're gonna judge you no matter what you do.
Melina Kanakaredes
#58. tour shaking their heads. "Are they romanticizing these communities?
Paul Kersey
#59. My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Coco Chanel
#60. What is South Africa's sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?
Jeremy Riddle
#61. My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Robert Southey
#62. What are they fighting about?"
Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture."
"Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?
Dawn Jayne
#63. Clarice scrawled, 'A question from when I was a little girl that I can answer only now: are rocks made, or are they born? Answer: rocks are.
Benjamin Moser
#64. Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing that?" "They're collecting moonlight," Dad says, and I remember: it's weaker, but we use it.
Jennifer Egan
#65. So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.
Eva Longoria
#66. Yes, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on there, but it still comes down to those seven people. What are they going to do? How are they going to deal with everything?
Remi Aubuchon
#67. What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
Buzz Aldrin
#68. I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women.
Charles Kinglsey
#69. If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
Bruce Springsteen
#70. Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.
Frances E. Willard
#71. True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
John Tillotson
#72. We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
George Sand
#73. I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
Chita Rivera
#74. When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether new?
Marilyn Grey
#75. Why are they doing this, Pa?" Kim asks. "Because they are destroyers of things.
Loung Ung
#76. I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.
Jack Black
#77. If the future and the past really exist, where are they?
Saint Augustine
#78. Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma
it just is.
Alexander McCall Smith
#79. When are they going to stop calling me General?"
"When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"
Han & Leia
Aaron Allston
#80. A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#81. Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with
Dallas Willard
#83. People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and
you're happy. Fight against it and you're not. It's so simple, it's hard to understand.
Elizabeth Berg
#84. Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That
Huston Smith
#85. Republican Scott Brown lost his bid for Senate in New Hampshire last night, two years after he was voted out as Senator in Massachusetts. When asked what he was planning to do next, he said, 'Are they still looking for a mayor in Toronto?'
Jimmy Fallon
#86. Blessed are they who did not see, but being blind, believed.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
Whitley Strieber
#88. My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.
William Shatner
#89. My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
John Hiatt
#90. He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
Anthony Trollope
#91. Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?
Leo Tolstoy
#92. My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
Dennis Quaid
#93. Well, how we going to sleep with that going on?" his wife demanded, not unreasonably. "Are they making love, or are they sore at each other, or are they just suffering down there?"
("I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes")
William Irish
#94. When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, "They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?" You're going to see the strings. But they did.
George Lopez
#95. Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway,
#96. Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
Yasser Seirawan
#97. Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?
Gina Greenlee
#98. Olives are the wishbones of the cocktail world; rarely are they freely passed along to somebody else.
Augusten Burroughs
#99. And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?
Edward Bellamy
#100. In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
George Ryan
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