Top 100 It Came Quotes
#1. Love, it came unbidden.
You couldn't help whom you fell in love with - cupid's arrows were ill aimed.
V.C. Andrews
#2. I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
Phil Anselmo
#3. You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.
Alex Turner
#4. Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
Jack Kirby
#5. I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
Joan Baez
#6. Especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She
Alexander McCall Smith
#7. I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.
Russell Crowe
#8. I had dinner with my father last night, and made a classic Freudian slip. I meant to say, "Please pass the salt," but it came out, "You prick, you ruined my childhood.
Jonathan Ned Katz
#9. Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.
Catulle Mendes
#10. Look, I want to say,
The worst thing you can imagine has already
Zipped up its coat and is heading back
Up the road to wherever it came from.
Tracy K. Smith
#11. One thing about Southern women, they were tough. No one said no and got away with it. Especially not when it came to a loved one.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.
Robert Wilder
#13. I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.
Henry James
#14. I thought I could get to greatness, to my greatness, by plugging on, cleaning up each mess as it came, the way you're taught to eat your greens before you have dessert.
Claire Messud
#15. Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do ... " speech, he would answer 'ask not.'
Peggy Noonan
#16. Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Andy Goldsworthy
#17. As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.
Glenn Hoddle
#18. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Leigh Steinberg
#20. Mike tyson made a prolific quote that I will never forget. It came when he was being interviewed by a reporter about another boxers plan for an upcoming fight... Mike said, "Everyone has a plan until you get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
#21. I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to get on his offensive line. I hated watching this young man get sacked as much as he did, especially when it came down to big games.
Emmitt Smith
#22. All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
Paulo Coelho
#23. I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
James Stockdale
#24. I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.
Alice Hoffman
#25. I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.
Adam Beach
#26. I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
Ellen Ochoa
#27. Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun. It
Lauren Gilley
#28. Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'
Catherine Hardwicke
#29. Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.
Charles Lamb
#30. People shouldn't second guess God. If everything happened for a reason, it was usually too difficult to figure out what that reason was. Better to just accept things as they were, deal with them and enjoy the weather when it came, stay inside when it rained.
Barbara Morgenroth
#31. For the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.
Blaise Pascal
#32. Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
Chiaki Kuriyama
#33. It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
Henri Michaux
#34. That's one of the things about Hef: when it came to humiliating his girlfriends, the larger the audience, the better.
Holly Madison
#35. Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.
Hal Hartley
#36. I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.
M.I.A.
#37. When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss.
Veronica Webb
#38. My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Rose Kennedy
#39. When this was over, he'd have time to teach her the truth. He was always crazy when it came to her.
Kit Rocha
#40. The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.
Avril Lavigne
#41. She did, after all, like a bit of menace in her men. She also liked it rough when it came right down to it. Or at least the idea of rough. No man had ever actually given her what she really wanted, or needed for that matter.
Ella Dominguez
#42. I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.
Hosni Mubarak
#43. I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
David Brooks
#44. You were good."
It was a very small compliment, but it came from someone who mattered, about something that mattered. I felt a smile spread across my face. "Really?
Leila Sales
#45. Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.
Tony Bennett
#46. Message
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
It was your voice I heard,
You waked and loved me so
I send you back this word,
I know, I know!
Sara Teasdale
#47. There was magic, and there was magic. Thanks to Gutenberg, I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin.
Jim C. Hines
#48. He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.
J.R. Ward
#49. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
Queen Latifah
#50. wonderful except when it came to eviscerating chickens. And even that was wonderful in its way, because it was something you did, and did well, that you didn't care to do. So there was a lesson in doing it. And
Philip Roth
#51. Claire's skin suddenly felt prickly. It came so easily to Sydney, and Claire used to hate her so much for it. Look how naturally she talked with Tyler, made it seem like toit was no big deal to fotm connections when they were so easily broken.
Sarah Addison Allen
#52. Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say: Arise, Lord! Let Your enemies be scattered, and those who hate You flee from Your presence. v 36 When it came to rest, he would say: Return, Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel. w
Anonymous
#53. The war was about everything, it was everything, and the question of where it came from was meaningless. There was only the question of how to live through it.
Brian Francis Slattery
#54. We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Penelope Lively
#55. Dragons didn't fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired - be it gold, gems, or a monster's body parts.
Lisa Shearin
#56. Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.
James Roday
#57. It was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you
leaving you no options for its use?
John Irving
#58. Damn my lil mama wasn't playing no games when it came to Jayda, she refused to even give her a chance. I knew
Mz. Toni
#59. I am somewhat proud of this," Mab's cold voice said. "To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists.
Jim Butcher
#60. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
Jim Butcher
#61. I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
Paul Westerberg
#62. Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when ...
Pablo Neruda
#63. When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions
Jeanine Basinger
#64. She was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like saying lightening is hazardous. It's a statement of fact that will always be a given.
Patricia Cornwell
#65. And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#66. It came over me, then, that any woman who ever loves more than one man must carry forever with her, in her heart, a ghost. There is no new thing for her to learn. It has all been done before.
Janice Holt Giles
#67. I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
Mark Billingham
#68. There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.
Paul Stanley
#69. When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.
Colin Dickey
#70. I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.
Joshilyn Jackson
#71. The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
Joseph Stiglitz
#72. She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.
Sarah Dessen
#73. I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
Gayle Forman
#74. I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at.
Troy Brown
#75. When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.
Aaron Dontez Yates
#76. There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.
George Vecsey
#78. When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.
Kenneth Eade
#79. It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.
Abby Mann
#80. I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
Vidya Balan
#81. When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Alexandra Bracken
#82. I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.
Mia Wasikowska
#83. Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa
#84. Every woman had a breaking point and Maliah's was incredibly high when it came to Danny. Granted,
Porscha Sterling
#85. 'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
Victor LaValle
#86. That's the beauty of Karma. You can piss it off so it throws a truckload of crap back at you, but you can fight it. You can tell it to piss off back to wherever it came from and take matters into your own hands, 'cause what's the use in your life if you ain't got a say in it?
Emma Hart
#87. Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.
Percy Sledge
#88. I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.
Robert Knepper
#89. Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.
Jodi Picoult
#90. I'd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you'd pick them?
Cassandra Clare
#91. No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.
Emily Croy Barker
#92. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?
Scott Anderson
#93. It came from down where laughter is a defense and not an outstretched hand.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#94. Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian's. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.
But that doesn't mean I love you less.
Melina Marchetta
#95. It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.
Wesley Clark
#96. When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.
Joyce Kilmer
#97. Rosalie had never been one to question or accuse, just to forgive
but I guess everyone had their limits when it came to tolerance levels, and I'd crossed the line.
Embee
#98. It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.
Dodie Smith
#99. Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
Laura Anne Gilman
#100. The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
Frederick Lenz
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