Top 100 Is That You Quotes
#1. The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. She had always called me 'you.' 'Is that you?' on the telephone, 'Can you? Will you? Do you?' so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one 'you' in the world and that was me.
Graham Greene
#3. The best part is that you can use any number of different interfaces." Tap, tap, drag. "This one's made of Lego blocks, for younger kids. See how there's a Lego representation of the DNA?
Michael Grant
#4. The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.
Paul Scheer
#5. The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered - and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.
Esther Hicks
#6. What I mean is that you should never initiate an aggressive act, but if one is initiated against you or another innocent person, you should respond in such a way that ensures that the aggressor is the one who regrets the encounter.
Abraham Thornton
#7. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
Andre Breton
#8. The beautiful thing is that you can change your self-image, just like you can change everything else in your life if it is not serving to enhance it.
Robin S. Sharma
#9. As far as I can tell, the biggest side effect of a gluten sensitivity is that you actually become the number one symptom: a huge pain in the ass.
Celia Rivenbark
#10. One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.
Jason Segel
#11. The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.
Louise Mensch
#12. One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#13. That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.
Mark Webber
#14. You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
James Patterson
#15. I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.
Deborah Ann Woll
#16. The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
John Tukey
#17. Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.
Martin Pistorius
#18. The idea of faith is that you hope He's real. But faith beyond that is that you know He's real. And I now know that God is real.
Adam Makos
#19. It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.
Lorraine Bracco
#20. The paradox of writing is that you're trying to use words to express what words can't express.
Stephen Fischer
#21. When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.
Jackie Warner
#22. Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.
Diane Samuels
#23. The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
Bill Watterson
#24. The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
Ben Bernanke
#25. Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
Alice Walker
#26. Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.
Brett Favre
#27. None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room.
Gemma B. Benton
#28. It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.
Eve Evangelista
#29. you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying.
Clayton M Christensen
#30. One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
A.J.P. Taylor
#31. The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
Patrick Wilson
#32. What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.
John D'Agata
#33. The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.
Richie Norton
#35. The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.
Matthew Lewis
#36. The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.
Barbara Holland
#37. When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
Atom Egoyan
#38. One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
Steven Spielberg
#39. What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good for the world, but at the same time the reality is that you have to eat other people to end up on top.
Owen Pallett
#40. It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
Ben Okri
#41. Your biggest challenge isn't that you've intentionally been making bad choices. Heck, that would be easy to fix. Your biggest challenge is that you've been sleepwalking through your choices.
Darren Hardy
#42. So God, how come it is that you love us all so much but you'd send us to the eternal fires if we don't act right? If I had children, I don't think I could ever watch them burn no matter how bad they were and I'm not even God.
Mary E. Kingsley
#43. One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka
#44. My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair
#45. Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.
Meredith Brooks
#46. Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?
Meg Cabot
#47. It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.
Roopleen
#48. The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
Jim Harrison
#49. The best possible thing you can get out of a relationship is that you're with someone who encourages you to be the best version of yourself every day.
Nishan
#50. Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
Neal Barnard
#51. My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
Anne Lamott
#52. But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.
Gene Siskel
#53. The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
Wendy Mass
#54. All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Marguerite Young
#55. Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
#56. The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
Adam Braun
#57. One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.
Kathleen Norris
#58. The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.
Charlie Munger
#59. One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.
Philip J. Hanlon
#60. All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
Mark Billingham
#61. My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.
Andrew Young
#62. I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
Akio Morita
#63. Your problem is that you wanna better word for world
Bob Dylan
#64. The trouble with books is that you don't know what's in them 'till is too late
Jeanette Winterson
#65. The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
Mini Grey
#66. I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.
Robert Pattinson
#67. The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.
Dillon Burroughs
#68. One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.
Cheech Marin
#69. That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil.
Jon Stewart
#70. The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what's coming it takes away the fun.
Kerry Ellis
#71. Hero Ride gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with an incredible charity, and the beauty of this challenge is that you can set the boundaries: whether you can manage 10 miles or 100 miles on the ride to Blackheath, Hero Ride is for everyone.
Peta Todd
#72. Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.
Robert Quillen
#73. Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
The truth is that you ugly ...
Not on the outside, but in the inside;
On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.
Pharoahe Monch
#74. The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
Nick Cannon
#75. It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.
Peter Jackson
#76. Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.
Colm Meaney
#77. My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.
Hillary Clinton
#78. I'm sorry, Laynie. That's going to have to come from him. My point is that you're not his burden. You're his reason.
Laurelin Paige
#79. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.
Elizabeth Scott
#80. One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Jackie Kennedy
#81. I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.
Laura Benanti
#82. The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington
#83. Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.
Anthony Doerr
#84. You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
Eric Hoffer
#85. You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.
Upasana Saraf
#86. The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
Judy Blume
#87. The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.
Max Weiss
#88. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.
Conn Iggulden
#89. The thing about nightmares is that you can't prepare for them. They sneak up on you when you are most vulnerable, wreaking havoc and mayhem when you are totally defenseless. And they don't always happen while you're sleeping
Sylvia Day
#90. My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.
Sonakshi Sinha
#91. The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Dennis Potter
#93. If you're the very luckiest kind of astronaut ever, your big payoff is that you get to visit a barren airless wasteland for five minutes, do some more math, and then go home - ice cream not guaranteed.
Lindy West
#94. I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
#95. What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
Oprah Winfrey
#96. One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life
Meg Donohue
#97. Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature
from your power source.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#98. One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.
Charles H. Townes
#99. The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
Bill Cunningham
#100. 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'
Robert Ruark
