Top 100 I Insist Quotes
#1. My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.
William Shatner
#2. If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover,
Cassandra Clare
#3. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#4. I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
Vladimir Putin
#5. But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.
Simone De Beauvoir
#6. I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
Christy Turlington
#7. One thing I've noticed is that the only places people insist you relax are the least relaxing places on the planet.
Robyn Schneider
#8. I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Orlando Bloom
#9. Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
Elizabeth Smart
#10. Aren't you going to insist that we pray, Gerry?' the Captain asked as he took a bite. 'This food doesn't deserve to be blessed,' the Doctor responded grimly, 'but if it makes you feel any better, I already prayed.
J Grace Pennington
#11. Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
Whitney M. Young
#12. I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.
Tom Stoppard
#13. I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.
Mads Mikkelsen
#14. He should have just checked it. I don't understand why some people insist on hauling those giant bags around everywhere they go - not when you can check one bag free on international flights. Check it at the gate if you don't trust the belt system.
Sabra Hunter
#15. I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
Pat Buckley
#16. To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
Robert B. Laughlin
#17. And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I'll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.
Tahereh Mafi
#18. I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
Helen Garner
#19. In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
Helmut Lang
#20. I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things.
Preeti Shenoy
#21. I, with a precision that excludes all possibility of misunderstanding, insist on the necessity for a state in this period, but a state without a police opposed to the people.
Jim Williams
#22. I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.
James Cameron
#23. I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.
Charles De Lint
#25. Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
Eugene Ormandy
#26. How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?
Charlie Courtland
#27. Come, come," I said. "You may be a lord someday, but you aren't one yet. No need for the courtly manners, and certainly not the moody temper. If you're to be my escort tonight, I insist you be a cheery one. You can even insult me if you like. It always makes you feel better.
Julie Berry
#28. I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
Thom Yorke
#30. There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, "why?" is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.
Elisabeth Elliot
#31. There is one thing that I do find extraordinary and it never ceases to amaze me. That even in this day and age, in any day and age, that people always insist on believing their heroes are men
Lucretia Grindle
#32. I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Howard Nemerov
#33. I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures ...
Catherynne M Valente
#34. Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
Ben Bradlee
#35. You look lousy,"Simon said.
Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good
Cassandra Clare
#36. I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.
Louise Hay
#37. But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
Fiona Apple
#38. I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#39. We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
Audre Lorde
#40. I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#41. Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.
Peter Kreeft
#42. Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's wings.' She had to have wings and [costume designer] Sandy Powell didn't want wings to begin with but had to be talked around, but that was fun.
Kenneth Branagh
#43. I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.
Chuck Palahniuk
#44. I don't trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don't believe in white wine; I insist on color.
Charles Bowden
#45. I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
#46. I am waiting for you in the living room ... the very pink living room. I do hope that when we acquire a home of our own, after this nonsense has passed, you will not insist on bathing the entire space in shades of bubble gum.
Sara Humphreys
#47. I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
Thom Yorke
#48. I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!
RuPaul
#49. To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
Lawrence Fagg
#50. I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
Alfredo Stroessner
#51. I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.
Jacquetta Hawkes
#52. If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.
Ernest Newman
#53. A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.
Lloyd Alexander
#54. To all my fellow Americans who simply insist on hangin' on to those guns ... Two things: 1) Enjoy 'em! 2) Please keep them hidden in a safe, secure place where the young 'uns can't get at 'em (I'd suggest the same place you keep the textbooks on evolution and global warming).
Quentin R. Bufogle
#55. I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden than to be the owner of this nasty country where it rains every day.
George S. Patton Jr.
#56. He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward. Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.
Shelby Foote
#57. I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.
John Taylor Gatto
#58. If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
James Joyce
#59. You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
John Von Neumann
#60. They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.
George Carlin
#61. The longer I looked the more certain I became that these figures were real and living, though perhaps not according to the standards that the camera and the biologist would insist upon.
Jeff VanderMeer
#62. Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
Rachel Nichols
#63. Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.
Rajneesh
#64. I think fitting in is highly overrated. I'd rather just fit out ... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.
Golda Poretsky
#65. I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!
Peter Handke
#66. I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.
Carolyn Hax
#67. And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
Tahereh Mafi
#68. I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
Edith Sitwell
#69. The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
Stephen King
#70. I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Mitt Romney
#71. I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
Laura Haddock
#72. I have always had severe problems with Austrians ... Musical, churchy, uptight ... nice legs ... hypocritical ... authoritarian ... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
Peter Greenaway
#73. Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
Aaron Sorkin
#74. But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#75. I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.
Dawn French
#76. I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.
Norman Lock
#77. To help the parents make the choice of which school to send their child to, I would insist that schools are graded on a simple basis that parents can understand, A through F. The way Florida is done.
Mitt Romney
#78. Holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
Joan D. Chittister
#79. What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
Andrew Sullivan
#80. Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.
Jerry I. Porras
#81. I was born and raise din San Francisco, which explains my willingness to stay in a city that's historically been full of people who insist on trying to kill me at the slightest provocation.
Seanan McGuire
#82. I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?
John Powell
#83. The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
Tadanobu Asano
#85. I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#86. I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length ...
Mary Russell Mitford
#87. Fine. If you insist.
I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But
I won't enjoy it.
Lee Wardlaw
#88. But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.
John Calvin
#89. Jesus. I just lost our bet." "Yes, you did." "Fuck." "If you insist." He pushes away and runs his hand through his hair.
Leisa Rayven
#90. I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#91. If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
Bear Bryant
#92. Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.
Steve Kluger
#93. You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef - even when the butcher has better-tasting stuff from a farm that's been producing wonderful meat for 100 years but hasn't jumped through the hoops to get organic certification.
Tom Parker Bowles
#94. Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'... Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
Laura Davis
#95. Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
Christopher Morley
#96. When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
Jack Nicklaus
#97. Are you unwell? You aren't going to vomit on me, are you?"
"That wasn't on my list of planned activities for the afternoon, no, but if you really insist, I suppose I could try for a hairball or something.
Katie MacAlister
#98. In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the end I find there is something kind of moving about it: the fact that people continue to insist on choosing somebody to build a life with.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.
Larry Gelbart
#100. I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?"
Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.
Julia Quinn
