Top 100 Isn't It Quotes
#1. You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#2. Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.
David Ebershoff
#3. Isn't it funny how the slightest glance or the tiniest touch can ameliorate the discomforts of even the coldest day.
Patrick Stevens
#4. With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
Brooklyn Decker
#5. Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers ... can move the very heart of God who created the universe?
Joni Eareckson Tada
#6. Funny how it worked out like that, isn't it? Funny how one life can affect another, and then that life affects the one after it and on and on.
Mia Sheridan
#7. Isn't it funny? You forgive people before they ask forgiveness. Later they expect your apologize.
M.F. Moonzajer
#8. Life's pretty friggin' mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn't it. This is the good stuff, and I've been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.
Kele Moon
#9. Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it?
Robert Holdstock
#10. Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?
Kathleen Hanna
#11. Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T.E. Lawrence
#12. We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
Edith Wharton
#13. When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
Jean Racine
#14. What took you so long?" Janie Mae asked as Darla closed the door. "I was torturing your mate." She grinned at her sister "It was surprisingly fun!" "It is, isn't it?
Shelly Laurenston
#15. People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.
Roy Lichtenstein
#16. Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.
Chuck Wendig
#17. Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.
Angela Carter
#18. I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'
He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.
Siri Hustvedt
#19. Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?
Lana Del Rey
#20. Hope is a precious thing, isn't it," she says. "And yet, we don't really appreciate it until it's gone.
Amy Ewing
#21. How I even do something without knowing what I do?? (Isn't it Strange??)
Deyth Banger
#22. That's funny, isn't it, how you can know him one way and we can know him some way completely different. Funny how a person can contradict their own self.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#23. You have to do what your heart dictates," Vivian says.
"Do you believe that?"
"Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?
Anita Shreve
#24. Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
Camryn Manheim
#25. You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.' Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair.
'Well, that's love isn't it?' Davina took his restless hand. 'Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring.
Moryah DeMott
#26. I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.
David Gilmour
#27. You can't rest in the shade of a human, not even a roly-poly one; and isn't it refreshing that trees can undergo periodic change without having a nervous breakdown over it?
Tom Robbins
#28. If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.
Paul Weller
#29. No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
Paul Weller
#30. Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.
Kirsten Miller
#31. Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ...
Janet Erskine Stuart
#33. Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
Franz Grillparzer
#34. Isn't it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?
Zack Love
#35. It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it
Gwendoline Riley
#36. Your amoral ingenuity in the pursuit of your interest is perfectly shocking," said Zacharias severely. "Yes, isn't it?" said Prunella, pleased.
Zen Cho
#37. That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.
Cassandra Clare
#38. I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
Malcolm McDowell
#39. And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if you're caught stealing?'
No, they don't do that, Henry said uncertainly.
Why not? It's pretty silly not to, isn't it?' Blue said.
Herbie Brennan
#40. A curious world isn't it? We think we meet people by chance when chance has nothing to do with it.
Galen Beckett
#41. So what do we need to do? (Kat)
One: Don't die. Two: Don't get bitten. (Sin)
And? (Kat)
Kick their ass. (Sin)
Good plan. Little vague on the details. (Kat)
Isn't it, though? (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?
Agatha Christie
#43. People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?
Domhnall Gleeson
#44. Beck, we gotta go."
"Ok." She made smooch lips to the mirror and then smiled at me. "It's shameful to look this fabulous isn't it?" she said, making me laugh.
"Absolutely, just shameful.
Shelly Crane
#45. Life has two stages. Birth and death. That's it. What you do in between the two? Well, that's up to you, isn't it?
Rachel Van Dyken
#46. I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.
Richard Corliss
#47. It's not always so easy," she said softly.
"Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.
Page Morgan
#48. A baby could be trained to view a glorious sunny day as depressing. A child could be trained to see a puppy as a vicious animal. An adult could be trained to see a drug as a pleasant vehicle for release. It's all a matter of conditioning, isn't it?
Robin S. Sharma
#49. Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!
Rachel Field
#50. Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?
Jim Cymbala
#51. Because it's all so fleeting, isn't it? The ocean existed so long before us and will stay long after us - most trees, too, and some animals. Isn't that crazy?
Emery Lord
#52. Little one," Simon said after a prolonged silence, "why isn't it enough that I care for you and Elizabeth as
I've never cared for anyone else? Are you truly going to toss what we could have away for a world of
strangers that will never even appreciate your actions?
Trisha Baker
#53. Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Your eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Now, isn't it a pity
George Harrison
#54. Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
Anita Desai
#55. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.
John Lydon
#56. I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it?
Robert Pattinson
#57. It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
Felicity Kendal
#58. We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz French Vanilla ice cream. But love is more than the sum of its parts, isn't it?
Lisa Unger
#59. Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?
Stefan Zweig
#60. Michael put the paper down and leaned across the table toward me, unexpectedly intense. "What do you want?"
"I already ordered an espresso," I answered, reflexively leaning back.
"No, I mean what do you want from life?"
"Good morning to you, too. Isn't it a little early for philosophy?
Myra McEntire
#61. Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
Phyllis Bottome
#62. It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?
Helen Simonson
#63. It's always different, isn't it, until it turns out to be the same.
Beatriz Williams
#64. Love is blind, they say
but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?
Susan Fletcher
#65. It's rather like Happy Families, isn't it?Mrs Legal, the lawyer's wife, Miss Dose, the doctor's daughter, etc. ... So sweet and funny and old-world. You just can't think of anything nasty happening here, can you?
Agatha Christie
#66. Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#67. Goodbye," Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. "It's such an unpleasant word, isn't it?" QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn't have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said.
Terry Pratchett
#68. Isn't it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn't. I did it so I'd have a reason to be around you - one I knew you couldn't refuse.
Richelle Mead
#69. That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced by pressures from the environment? ... "
-Jules, BOOM
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
#70. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
Milan Kundera
#71. (Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
Victor Borge
#72. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
Karen Horney
#73. Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it?
Martha Beck
#74. DEAR BABY, Isn't it good to know winter is coming -
Jack Kerouac
#75. John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?
Jay Leno
#76. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#77. It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.
Xavier Samuel
#78. Parky, isn't it?" Strike said to the frowning constable and her companion as he and Robin walked back past them.
Robert Galbraith
#80. Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
Coretta Scott King
#81. Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement.
Ravi Zacharias
#82. Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?
Ronald Reagan
#83. Bailey, where's your hat?"
"In my pocket, sir!"
"Why isn't it on your head?"
"Because I can't get my head in my pocket, sir!
Robyn Carr
#85. Isn't it interesting that we place deadbolt locks on our doors to keep evil influences out and then allow and even invite evil influences into our home through television.
Randall Wright
#86. But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath.
Yes. Horrible, isn't it?
N.K. Jemisin
#87. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?
Pat Paulsen
#88. A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?
Nanamoli Thera
#89. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.
Douglas Adams
#90. It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.
Gwen Stefani
#91. You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken. "Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.
Cassandra Clare
#92. (Isn't it wonderful to serve the God of "it's never too late"?)
Diana Hagee
#93. Oh Lord, that's it, isn't it? That's trust. I have to trust you even if he rapes me. You'll be with me. You'll help me through somehow.
Sarah Sundin
#94. And isn't it actually unbelievable that one simple name encompasses all of this? The fetus in the belly, the infant on the changing table, the forty-year-old in front of the computer, the old man in the chair, the corpse on the bench?
Karl Ove Knausgard
#95. And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.
Rowan Coleman
#96. I'm breathing ... are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?
Robert Bolt
#97. Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?
Mark Cahill
#98. It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live ... and die.
Raymond Khoury
#99. You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.
To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
George W. Bush
#100. When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
Barbara Corcoran
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