Top 100 It Gets Quotes
#1. I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.
John Dunning
#3. I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings
Diana Wynne Jones
#4. At the end of the day little girl we're all each other has, so no matter how tough it gets for any of us we just have to power through and keep it together.
Jay Crownover
#5. If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
Estelle Morris
#6. Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.
J. Budziszewski
#8. Milk Duds. It doesn't' bother me that it gets stuck in my teeth or anything.
Danny Garcia
#9. Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.
John Leonard
#10. Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.
Kevin DeYoung
#11. The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
Morris West
#12. When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
Joan Didion
#13. Only in Russia poetry is respected
it gets people killed.
Osip Mandelstam
#14. Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR
D.J. MacHale
#15. Oh it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
Joni Mitchell
#16. Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.
Bill Condon
#17. So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.
Audie Cornish
#18. The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.
Eric Lewis
#19. Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.
Christopher Bram
#20. I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.
Darren Aronofsky
#21. People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.
Anthony Mackie
#22. A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence.
Ben Aaronovitch
#23. Trouble in a marriage," he later wrote, "is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.
Salman Rushdie
#24. Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.
Tom Waits
#25. 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
Ben Shapiro
#26. Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.
Charles Baxter
#27. It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
Cameron Bright
#28. The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?
Michael Bolton
#29. I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.
Ice Cube
#30. The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.
Silvio Berlusconi
#31. Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.
William Shatner
#32. I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
John Grisham
#33. One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
M. M. Musselman
#34. Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.
Eve Ensler
#35. Love is like wine, it gets better everyday.
Vann Chow
#36. It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.
Anne Lamott
#37. It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.
Lindsay Lohan
#38. There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Alex Van Halen
#39. A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
E. M. Forster
#40. Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?
Tom Cruise
#41. The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.
Bear Bryant
#42. For all the yoga I do (and I do plenty), I also love the time I spend jogging. It gets me in sync with myself.
Stephanie Ellis
#43. Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.
Robert Asprin
#44. The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.
Doug Stanhope
#45. Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
Edwin Newman
#46. It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.
Neal Barnard
#47. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
#48. Alzheimer's is literally killing us, and the only way to fight this 'crime' is through a groundswell of people who continue to raise their voices and funds to ensure it gets the attention it deserves.
Tess Gerritsen
#49. People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.
Lenny Kravitz
#50. Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.
Denis Leary
#51. Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.
Glenway Wescott
#52. Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.
Yogi Berra
#53. Any weed dumb enough to grow tall ain't got no chance. It gets decapitated by the next train that comes through.
Neal Shusterman
#54. If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.
Henry Rollins
#55. I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
Barry Humphries
#56. When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Russell Lynes
#57. Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.
Kristan Higgins
#58. Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.
Kelly Slater
#59. I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
Drew Barrymore
#60. It gets super dark. I did a bunch of intense indie movies when I was starting out in my career and I was always in a bad mood because, when you're dealing with the subject matter of losing your baby, getting raped and all that stuff, it's not fun to go through. You really have to go there.
Busy Philipps
#61. Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.
Whitney Houston
#62. For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.
Scott Foley
#63. When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.
Jeffrey Walker
#64. 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
#65. Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
#66. Oh Ward, you animal. It gets me so hot and squishy when you call it intercourse.
Benjamin R. Smith
#67. It gets easier when you've met and dealt with your own grief. It gets easier, but it'll probably never be easy.
Scot Gardner
#68. For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
#69. An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.
Daniel Pauly
#70. Every part of me pulses with electric energy. Every synapse is firing, every part of me is alert, awake, and what I think is that this, this feeling, this is real. This feeling of being absolutely alive, absolutely in this moment, this is as real as it gets.
Theresa Alan
#71. Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed.
Derek A. Cuthbert
#72. I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.
H. Beam Piper
#73. Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#74. A house doesn't make a home. When the place has got history, family, emotions, worries, joys worked into the wood, that's when it gets a solid threshold.
Jim Butcher
#75. The real test of progress is how we love God and our neighbor. Everything else is fluff, and potentially dangerous fluff, at that. It gets in the eyes, so that we no longer see clearly as God sees
Michael Pocock
#76. I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.
Andrea Speed
#77. Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.
Tristram Stuart
#78. Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.
Tod Machover
#79. Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
Mike Nichols
#80. On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
Michael Symon
#81. I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
Ivan Lendl
#82. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
Marianne Williamson
#83. But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People
Jeff Chang
#84. It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work ...
Spike Lee
#85. You hold on to life until it gets ripped away from you. Even if it gets ripped away in pieces. You just hold on.
Nick Cutter
#86. Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
Gary Coleman
#87. I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow
stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth,
swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling,
somewhere else it gets back up.
Bob Hicok
#88. I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.
Tom Verlaine
#89. It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
Hugh Laurie
#90. We'll blame it on the estrogen, it gets blamed for everything anyway.
Belle Aurora
#91. If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.
Roberto Orci
#92. I don't think most people start by saying 'no' to God, they're just not sure they're prepared to say 'yes'. And then as time goes by it's as if it gets harder and harder to say 'yes' because they've developed a whole lifestyle around 'no.
Tom Flaherty
#93. I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.
Mark Bittman
#94. The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.
Mira Grant
#95. You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don't catch a wave for an hour.
Rob Machado
#96. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships
Amy Poehler
#97. Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy.
Rita Dove
#98. Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
Demi Moore
#99. That's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.
Gene Wolfe
#100. I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.
Moon Bloodgood
