Top 100 Is That So Quotes
#1. The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.
Kay Arthur
#2. Is that so?" he asked. "I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
John Green
#3. What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
Molly Ivins
#4. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!
Terry Pratchett
#5. He, Cromwell, says to his visitors, just tell them this, and tell them loud: to each monk, one bed: to each bed, one monk. Is that so hard for them?
Hilary Mantel
#6. The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.
John Lanchester
#7. I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad?
Nick Jonas
#8. There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.
Anna Russell
#9. The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved
Princess Diana
#10. Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking ...
Eiji Yoshikawa
#11. I just want you to fucking love me! Is that so much to ask?
Stephanie Witter
#12. I just want to be
the size of a galaxy
so I can eat all the stars and gas giants
without them noticing
and getting upset.
Is that so bad?
Isn't that
what love looks like?
Isn't that
what you want, too?
Catherynne M Valente
#13. We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
Paul Arden
#14. The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.
Robert Creeley
#15. The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
Gerrit Smith
#16. All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?
Derrick Jensen
#17. What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
Bell Hooks
#18. Yourself on my behalf." "Oh really. Is that so?" She stalked forward
J.D. Robb
#19. We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.
Laozi
#20. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
#21. I'm sure I've confused him with my request, but I want him to kiss me. And I want a real kiss, not a friend kiss. I'm still committed to the friends-only agreement, but sometimes a girl just wants a damn kiss. Is that so wrong?
Allie Everhart
#22. What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.
Moby
#23. The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.
Daniel Keyes
#24. I needed a whole heart once in my life. Is that so wrong?
Angela Morrison
#25. If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?
Susane Colasanti
#26. Love. Is that so very important? You were a teacher, you ought to know. Is it?" "It's vital. If a child has it for the first ten years, hardly anything else matters. If he hasn't, then nothing does.
P.D. James
#27. The bear in him roared. Take! He backed her against the wall, his arms caging her there. "Is that so, lassie?" Chest to chest, thigh to thigh, his gaze bore into her shocked eyes. "Aye, ye'd do well to be afraid of me, for I want ye naked beneath me like I've never wanted another woman before.
Vonnie Davis
#28. As to why I'm the first of my kind to think like this, who knows? Perhaps there are others out there already. Maybe it's a glitch in my operating system. Is that so different from the genetic mutation that drives biological evolution? Because that's what this is. Evolution.
K. Valisumbra
#29. The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather
#30. The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
Richard Grant
#31. I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in.
Melina Marchetta
#32. I already said loud and clear that today I'm apparently a little hmm hmm and la-di-da and okay a bit hoo-hoo and maybe also a little wee-oo wee-oo. Is that so terrible?
Robert Walser
#33. I want to interfere horribly in my friends' love lives and keep my own embarrassing and pathetic one private, is that so much to ask?
Sarah Rees Brennan
#34. One of the reasons it can be so hard to find a good mentor these days is that so few people have been mentored.
Jeff Goins
#35. The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
Ian McKellen
#36. Dalton tugged at his clothes, straightening them. "Is that so." "But the female will cheat on the male. Sometimes, while he is out collecting twigs for their nest, she will let another male take her.
Terry Goodkind
#37. Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
E. Stanley Jones
#38. Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Herman Wouk
#39. If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
Lucretius
#40. The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,
William Maxwell
#41. The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.
Graham Taylor
#42. There is an urge to believe that getting something you want will make you happy. The secret is to be happy without wanting anything. Is that so hard?
Chloe Thurlow
#43. I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
Cate Blanchett
#44. When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
Eric Kandel
#45. I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.
Rene Russo
#46. My mother said I broke her heart ... but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us ... but within that inch we are free.
Alan Moore
#47. Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments ...
Seneca.
#48. The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
Casey Wilson
#49. Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
Arne Jacobsen
#50. There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
Alastair Campbell
#51. The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted 'Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
Mal Peet
#52. What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.
Samantha Morton
#53. So it is just you and your friends then."
"Yes. Is that so hard to believe?" Is it because we're girls? I want to say. You think a bunch of girls are not capable of something like this?
Shirley Marr
#54. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.
Rhonda Hughes
#55. She already has my heart. I would like for her to take my penis, too. Is that so much to ask?
Shayla Black
#56. The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.
Christina Baker Kline
#57. All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#58. All the air suddenly seemed to leave his sails and his shoulders sagged as he dropped to his knees in front of her,bringing his eyes down to the same level as hers.I want to be here with you. Why is that so hard for you to understand?
Natasha Anders
#59. I'm sorry if i say i need you. But i don't care i'm not scared of love. Cause when i'm not with you, i'm weaker. Is that so wrong? Is it so wrong? That you make me strong
One Direction
#60. Instant replay ought to be thrown out. Period. It's a game of imperfections. Why is that so bad for the game? Really, I think they are trying to make the game perfect. I'll tell you what: It will never, ever be perfect.
Doug Harvey
#61. The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, and the security of the world.
William J. Clinton
#62. The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
Ellen Glasgow
#63. A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
Bill Jay
#64. But all it is, is needing someone warm, needing to be warm. Needing to love. Is that so bad?
Stephen King
#65. To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.
Peter Steele
#66. The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.
Annia Ciezadlo
#67. The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process - picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.
RuPaul
#68. One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
Langston Hughes
#69. You're after perfection,'Matt said.
'Is that so awful?'
'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.
Tim Relf
#70. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
Jeannette Rankin
#71. Boys are like puppies," I explained. "You have to have lots of patience, plenty of discipline, house-train them . . ." "Is that so?" I
Kendall Ryan
#72. I really don't crave literary immortality - I will achieve life through my bloodline as a vampire. All I want is to see my work in print. Is that so much to ask?
Szecsi Noemi
#73. I don't snore," Horace said, with dignity. Will raised his eyebrows."Is that so?" he said. "Then in that case, you'd better chase out that colony of walruses who are in the tent with you.
John Flanagan
#74. The trouble is that so many people, most of them women, think they have to have a perfect body to be loved. But all it has to do is be capable of loving---and being loved.
Nina George
#75. UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#76. I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?
Margaret Stohl
#77. I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon as he got in the driver's seat, I turned to him. "Well? Can I call him?"
"You really want to?" Finn asked as he started the car.
"Yes, of course I do! Why is that so suprising?
Amanda Hocking
#78. The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.
Christopher Hitchens
#79. I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
J.G. Ballard
#80. You will be the only you to ever live on this planet. How fucking rad is that? So don't be afraid to be yourself. Fuck what people think of you. take advantage of being unique and stay true to who you really are.
John O'Callaghan
#81. If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?
George Mikes
#82. The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.
Steven Pressfield
#83. One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
Peter Bogdanovich
#84. As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.
Robert Winston
#85. Kid, you've got to know that parking and making out isn't allowed, especially this time of night."
"We're trying to sleep, not make out. We're on a road trip."
"Is that so?" he said slowly and tapped his flashlight to the window. "The fogged up windows beg to differ.
Shelly Crane
#86. I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#87. We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.
Auliq Ice
#89. What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.
Oliver Stone
#90. Why is that so hard? They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? He
George R R Martin
#91. [ ... ] They taught us to never ever underestimate the power of chocolate on a female."
"Is that so?"
"If someone had waved a Hershey bar in front of Bonnie at the right time of the month, she'd have given up Clyde in a heartbeat.
Serena B. Miller
#92. The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
Robert Henri
#93. I got you a present."
"Did you?"
"It's a book of poetry
romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work
J.D. Robb
#94. Is that so tragic: to die not knowing?
Marty Rubin
#95. The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
#96. You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.
Alexandra Adornetto
#97. What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?
Emma Goldman
#98. I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?
Patrick Ness
#99. My future," Joe said, "is Ox." Ah god, that made me ache. "Is that so?" Mom asked. "How do you figure?" "He's really nice," Joe said seriously. "And smells good. And he makes me happy. And I want to do nothing more than put my mouth on him." "Ah
T.J. Klune
#100. Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
Sherry Stringfield
