Top 100 It But Quotes
#1. Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.
Anton Chekhov
#2. The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself ...
Harry Browne
#3. No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
Haruki Murakami
#4. I have a lot of money, many millions some earned and more inherited. What I don't have is a desire to work. I'm not sure where I left it, but it's been missing for a while, and I haven't searched real hard.
David Rosenfelt
#5. She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
Kate Atkinson
#6. I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
Mark Twain
#7. Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.
David Eddings
#8. To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
Shiloh Fernandez
#9. The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
Oscar Isaac
#10. I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.
Joe Swanberg
#11. The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey
#12. Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
Michelle Williams
#13. Just remember
if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity
and never give up.
Jane Goodall
#14. I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.
Selena Gomez
#15. No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
Aimee Bender
#16. I checked the burger. It had everything on it but cheese. Just the way I liked it.
Anonymous
#17. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...
Isaac Asimov
#19. Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
Laurence Sterne
#20. Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#21. We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
#22. My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person. It hasn't got a goddam thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyway.
J.D. Salinger
#23. I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.
Jessica Lucas
#24. I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
Bahman Ghobadi
#25. We hold things. We don't think much about it, but there are hungry people all around us, and God is looking to take the seemingly insignificant little pieces tucked away in our lives to multiply them and feed his people.
Jennie Allen
#26. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name. Some of them can get it, but many can't.
Sharlto Copley
#27. I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony.
Bettie Page
#28. I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
Joyce Brothers
#29. I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.
Lenny Abrahamson
#30. Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It's a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there's nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen.
Emma Scott
#31. We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
Abraham Lincoln
#32. I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
Nikki Reed
#33. She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.
Ransom Riggs
#34. I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.
Jesse Duplantis
#35. And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody ever got used to it. All they learned to do was to stop letting it show.
James Meek
#36. And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
James Lipton
#37. Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all
Benjamin Rush
#38. Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.
Shane Filan
#40. My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."
Patricia McConnell
#41. I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.
John Assaraf
#42. Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.
Kiran Desai
#43. Great leaders are comfortable with conflict....not because we enjoy it, but because we are eager to get beyond it.
Lana Krumwiede
#44. If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.
Arsene Wenger
#45. There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish.
Raymond Chandler
#46. I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.
Dan Meyer
#47. The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
Alex Haley
#48. Some girls are pretty and they were born for it but no matter what always be yourself because people might see the wrong side of you
Jenny Han
#49. ...Heard the rushing wind, saw through his tears: red and blue flaring light, and then he shut up and looked for it but found nothing.
Jason Heller
#50. I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.
Paul Feig
#51. Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.
Nick Hanauer
#52. NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson
#53. When the fire is lighted within your soul, can't help it, but to burn.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy ... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
Zach Braff
#55. The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.
Kenneth Bayes
#56. Each time I thought of him, something warm would heat up the pit of my stomach and excitement would flutter in my chest. I didn't yet know what to make of any of it but one thing was for sure; I didn't like it.
O.E. Boroni
#57. If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.
Charles Spurgeon
#58. I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
Martin Scorsese
#59. You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.
Tom Ford
#60. Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.
Paul Auster
#61. Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
Jason Alexander
#62. Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.
Ryan Lochte
#63. The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.
Roger Smith
#64. There's no way to do that, Miss Archer. I won't say that if you refuse me you'll kill me; I shall not die of it. But I shall do worse; I shall live to no purpose.
Henry James
#65. If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#66. I love confidence in a guy. I don't have it, but there's nothing sexier.
Todd Phillips
#67. When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
Ali Larter
#68. My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea ... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.
Francis Ford Coppola
#69. Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
Ryan Gosling
#70. I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
Mindy Kaling
#71. Hello, Miss Mackay. It's been a while, hasn't it? But then, a man never knows quite when he'll run into you, eh, Kiernan?
Heather Graham
#72. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.
Ashley Mansour
#73. They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
Adam Garcia
#74. That good or bad momentS never be forgetten. It Store alwayS in any corner it will remembered at right time automaticaly. No one can eraSe it but Simply it forgotten for Some time till the true time.
Sumit Lakhani
#75. I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
Doug Harvey
#76. It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.
Azazel Jacobs
#77. You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
Horace Mann
#78. I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel," she says. "Why do the words have to be so important?"
"They just are," he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. "Not because you're saying them, but because you're not.
Jennifer E. Smith
#79. We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff.
Gabor Mate
#80. Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.
Jeffrey Zaslow
#81. We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.
David Agus
#82. What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred De Vigny
#83. Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.
Herb Ritts
#84. I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory.
Czeslaw Milosz
#85. It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan
#86. I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it.
Lorraine Heath
#87. It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.
Gillian Flynn
#88. Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it; but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.
Sanjo Jendayi
#89. When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.
Christopher Lee
#90. Our minds are like certain vehicles,
when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
Elihu Burritt
#91. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
Mads Mikkelsen
#92. The fulfilment of your dream could cause a severe shock to many people and they will take ages to recover from it. But some of them will be permanently damaged by it and they will choose to hate you for your achievement.
Euginia Herlihy
#94. For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.
Richard Hooker
#95. I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.
Pete Sampras
#96. As long as I can make that audience one thing, one unit, then I'm okay with it. But, sometimes, the bigger the audience, the weirder it gets.
Brian Regan
#97. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun
George Harrison
#98. You're still alive, Mags. You might not feel like it. But you have to keep going. -Tanna
Kristina McBride
#99. I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.
Russell Simmons
#100. When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.
Austin Butler
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