Top 100 It Is What It Is Quotes
#1. When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
Dave Grohl
#2. I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
Tarvaris Jackson
#3. Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best we can. We show up. We strive for gratitude, and try not to be such babies.
Anne Lamott
#4. All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#5. Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
Jeb Bush
#6. I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.
Jeremy Luke
#7. 'It would be great not to have to deal with any of this. When I found out, I wished Killian could have wiped my memories so I wouldn't have to know that all this shit exists. I was like, "Vampires can get rid of memories. What are you good for?" But it is what it is.'
Tara Lain
#8. In the end," Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, "it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That's what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It's lonely. It's impossible. It's all-consuming." It is what it is.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#9. If only this mist would clear, it would be a lovely day," she said faintly.
"And if only the clouds would thicken up it would be a miserable day," Mr. Allen contributed from behind the paper. "It is what it is.
Val McDermid
#10. This isn't what either of us planned, but it is what it is, and we have to make the best of it.
Hannah R. Conway
#11. I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
Ted Turner
#12. Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.
Synyster Gates
#13. This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
Amy Dickinson
#14. You just have those days. You just allow yourself to have those days. I think everybody has bad days. So because of that, when you recognize it, just allow it to be. It is what it is. I don't think you should ever stifle your frustration, ever.
Donald Faison
#15. I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
Nicole Kidman
#16. The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.
L. Ron Hubbard
#17. To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#18. With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; it is what it is. It's an adventure film.
Steven Strait
#19. The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.
Mark Helprin
#20. It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.
Mira Grant
#21. Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
Miyamoto Musashi
#22. It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.
John Szarkowski
#23. It is what it is. It, meaning terrorism. Terrorism is what it is,
Gretchen Carlson
#24. Some of these new country singers aren't really country. I think some of them ought to be singing pop music and just leave country alone. You don't have to see them, you can hear it. It is what it is, I guess, but I'd still rather they just let the ones that sing country sing country.
Loretta Lynn
#25. You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
Sufjan Stevens
#26. The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
Drew Brees
#27. I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.
James Durbin
#28. One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
Neil Young
#29. Dawn
5am: the frogs
ask what is it, what is it?
It is what it is.
Campbell McGrath
#30. Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.
Renee James
#31. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.
Mike Hargrove
#32. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#33. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.
Rosie O'Donnell
#34. It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
Giles Duley
#37. It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.
Queen Latifah
#38. Instead of using the expression "It is what it is," just shut up.
Bill Maher
#39. I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.
Lorde
#41. Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
Michael Keaton
#42. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what it is; I tend not to do that.
Harry Styles
#43. It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
Dan Flavin
#44. The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy. I'm sorry. It is what it is. I'm dying this way. With the crown on my head, nobody can take nothing away from me. It is what it is. I am who I am. Bottom line.
Lil' Kim
#45. I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As a new mom, it is what it is, and we just have to do our best.
Kourtney Kardashian
#46. I think you're bound to feel guilty, and you're going to feel sad. You have to simply feel it. Don't hate yourself. It is what it is.
Mhairi McFarlane
#47. life is then, in sum, "constantly deciding what we are going to be."[78] As a result, our life is intrinsically a collision with the future. Thus, "life is futurity, it is what it is not yet."[79]
Oswald Sobrino
#48. Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of "is" and "it.
Tom Robbins
#49. True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#50. There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.
Penelope Cruz
#51. It is what it is"... and "You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time, and sometimes when life throws things at you that are pretty challanging and it is really big elephant, envision it to be chocolate covered to make the bites much more yummy and easier to swallow."
T.L. Wood
#52. When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."
James Patterson
#53. You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.
Christopher Walken
#54. No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?
Cynthia Tucker
#55. Love has no time table, no rules. It is what it is, Saylor
Rachel Van Dyken
#57. Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except ... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.
Phil Klay
#58. I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
Nas
#59. If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#60. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
Hillary DePiano
#61. Emancipate yourself from the impotent mindset of, "It is what it is". Life does not come labeled; it is what you make it.
Steve Maraboli
#62. Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.
Zakk Wylde
#64. No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.
Blake Nelson
#65. Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.
C. Snyder
#66. Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.
Saskia De Brauw
#67. My story is a sad and lonely one, and beautiful and lively and joyful. It's not perfect; it is what it is.
This is a story.
But it is not a fairytale.
Eugenia Argerami
#68. Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
Emily Dickinson
#69. A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
Richard Gere
#71. I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
Michael Sam
#72. People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott
#73. Ho. What's so surprising? Asach aahe. It is what it is. Bambai is a bitter pill. Take large gulps of water and swallow it, or its bitterness will quickly begin to sphraidd in your mouth, making it impossible for you to gulp it down," said Laxmi.
Aditya Kripalani
#74. I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.
Rob Ford
#75. It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.
Tom Robbins
#76. The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.
Nick Saban
#77. It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
Pat Summitt
#78. I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.
Ryan Sheckler
#79. It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.
Karen Salmansohn
#80. Do you want it flowery or straight.'
She bites her lip. ' Straight.'
'I wanted to fuck you senseless from the moment our eyes met.'
'And the flowery version?'
'Now I think about it, there is no flowery version. It is what it is.
Georgia Le Carre
#82. The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
Chuck D
#83. Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#84. You can't avoid the inevitability of death. It comes at you one way or another, and takes us all to the same place in the end. To apologize for it is to apologize for the sun shining or the rain falling. It is what it is.
Catherine Doyle
#85. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag
#86. I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.
Robert Redford
#87. Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.
Charles Edward Montague
#88. I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.
James Wan
#89. There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.
Stanley Donen
#90. It is what it is...life. It goes on when we don't want it to. It moves forward when all you want to do is stand still or turn back.
Joann Buchanan
#91. Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse
Connor George Serbin
#92. You have a tale to tell, you are ancient, and deeply broken. I feel love for you and cherish that it is what it is and nothing more.
Anne Rice
#94. Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder.
Karen Marie Moning
#95. All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
Erol Alkan
#96. It is what it is ... " he murmured, letting the words trail off at the end.
"I hate that expression," Lucy said, a bit more forcefully than intended. "Nothing is what it is. Things are always changing. They can always get better.
Jennifer E. Smith
#98. You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.
Gary Lineker
#99. The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.
Jean Baudrillard
#100. It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.
Aris Whittier
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