Top 100 It's Just That Quotes
#1. It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.
Jon Crosby
#2. I'm not trying to hide anything, you know. It's just that those musty stories make me feel ten years old again, and unwanted.That never goes away, no matter how many magical summer days have come between.
Ransom Riggs
#3. We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.
Sam Altman
#4. It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so
Ronald Reagan
#5. I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus ... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.
Zach Braff
#6. It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
Gerald Stern
#7. It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#8. It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
Chuck Klosterman
#9. There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.
Kirk Hammett
#10. Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.
Hrithik Roshan
#11. It's just that myth about your equipment," I said. "Ain't no myth, man.
Robert B. Parker
#12. Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it's just that they listen too slowly.
Mark Kermode
#13. It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.
Emma Forrest
#14. It's not that I don't care," said Robin. "It's just that I don't want to know."
She knew too much already. This was real life, kicking her in the face, and she wanted nothing to do with it.
Jami Attenberg
#15. That's when I realized that Heaven doesn't exist in another place, and neither does Hell. It's all here on Earth. We live them both, right here with one another. It's just that sometimes we have to go through Hell to get to Heaven.
Galaxy Craze
#16. But don't go thinking that I'm critical of you, Anton, because really I'm not. Not a bit! It's just that you're not here. I'm alone and I'm frightened and you're not here. And you're not ever going to be here for me.
Bette Greene
#17. For anybody who suspects that we need to reform the drug laws, there is an easier argument to make, and a harder argument to make. The easier argument is to say that we all agree drugs are bad - it's just that drug prohibition is even worse.
Johann Hari
#18. When I was a child, I was certain that I could remember what it was like to live on Venus; I could remember what it was like to live in the American Plains. I could remember. And it's ancient memory. We all have it. It's just that some of us access it more than others.
Patti Smith
#19. Volume in your hair is sexy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be that Brigitte Bardot kind of volume - it's just that nice texture up top that gives it some life and body to it.
Chrissy Teigen
#20. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
Stephen Chbosky
#21. Just being your friend is going to be hard, but I'll try. It's just that . . . I like you. You're witty and sweet, and you happen to be the most infinitely beautiful woman I've ever met.
Renee Carlino
#22. Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams
#23. Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.
Bill Maher
#24. Likewise, it's never just to cause trouble or be intentionally divisive. It's just that fun needs to be recovered to Christendom.
John Crowder
#25. We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#26. I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.
Karen Gillan
#27. It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
Andy Goldsworthy
#28. I tried to smile back. Now, don't get me wrong. Sam Carroll wasn't a creep or a bully or anything. It's just that he was... well, he was Sam Carroll, for goodness' sake. I'd only known him for forever and he'd only followed me around for even longer.
Rachel Coker
#29. There is never a problem without a solution. It's just that you don't see it because fear, insecurity and lack of passion make you blind.
Abhishek Krishnan
#30. It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons. - Travis from The Good Father
Diane Chamberlain
#31. Three-quarters of Americans who went bankrupt due to medical costs actually had insurance; it's just that the insurance they had didn't actually protect them from catastrophe.
Jonathan Chait
#32. Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
Malcolm Wilson
#33. People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
Lady Gaga
#34. None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way [George W.] Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#35. I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.
Bill Nighy
#36. Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#37. In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in the world. It's just that I don't enjoy writing it.
Iron & Wine
#38. If you really wanted it you would figure out a way to get it. If it were that VALUABLE to you, you would make it happen. So it's not that you can't afford it. It's just that you don't value it enough to do what it would take to get it.
Kate Northrup
#39. What's that, forgone conclusion then you reckon, sir?' said the barman. 'Arsenal without a chance?'
'No, no,' said Ford, 'it's just that the world's about to end.
Douglas Adams
#40. It's just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there
and that you meant it
but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open
Buddy Wakefield
#41. It's just that life felt the right size in there ... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.
Athol Fugard
#42. It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.
Angie Harmon
#43. If ever I was going to listen to a string of swearwords sitting next to a ninety-four-year-old, I'm glad that ninety-four-year-old was my grandfather. Not that he swears a lot. It's just that he can take it. And, he is currently laughing so hard that his eyes are watery.
A. J. Jacobs
#44. I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
George Clooney
#45. It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.
Ian Fleming
#46. It's just that I am not really a safe person to be with. The life I'd lead wouldn't be a safe life.
Agatha Christie
#47. It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.
James Levine
#48. Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.
Thomas Ruff
#49. Have at it. She seems to obey you."
"I don't obey! He's an alpha! It's just that I don't have any choice!" Dusty shouted to her back.
Kristen Ashley
#50. Some things is not that I don't care, it's just that nothing happens if I even actually care about it.
Makuro
#51. Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that ... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.
Dean Koontz
#52. It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!
Robert Armstrong
#53. I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.
Richard Estes
#54. It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.
Meredith Brooks
#55. I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
#56. It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.
Neal Shusterman
#57. It's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
Erik Naggum
#58. In my twenties in San Francisco I became a sophisticate and an acting agnostic. It wasn't that I had stopped believing in God; it's just that God didn't seem to be around the neighborhoods I frequented.
Maya Angelou
#59. All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.
Sydney Pollack
#60. I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.
Harvey Pekar
#61. Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
Mark Haddon
#62. I'd like to have a little better relationship with the media. It's just that I don't think the media is comfortable with me.
Vijay Singh
#63. It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
Graham Joyce
#64. We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't.
Renae A. Sauter
#65. Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Ang Lee
#66. In fact, I think that's probably what the Bermuda Triangle is up to. It doesn't mean to do any harm, and it's actually pretty nice once you get to know it. It's just that Bermuda doesn't know how to handle itself when somebody sails into its territory, because that hardly ever happens.
Katie Heaney
#67. I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.
Stephen King
#68. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Abbas Naqvi
#69. We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
Ben Elton
#70. There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our lives. They are there for the taking, it's just that we don't usually take them.
Anonymous
#71. Meditation has been really helpful for me and music and great books. Deep down, it's just that I feel a connection to music and books when I can find that other people have gone through similar things.
Mason Jennings
#72. You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood
#73. It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
Larry McMurtry
#74. Well, I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.
Blake Edwards
#75. It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.
Tom Sutcliffe
#76. That's not the way it is, Callahan." I grabbed her hands and rolled her closer to me, until our knees touched. "The thing is, we're all fragile. It's just that most of our friends are lucky enough not to know it yet.
Sarina Bowen
#77. I know," said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. "I like your stories. Mine are always too dark."
"I don't think so," said October. "It's just that your nights are longer and you aren't as warm.
Neil Gaiman
#78. We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#79. It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.
Dr. Dre
#80. I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.
Grace Paley
#81. You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.
Nicholas Sparks
#82. There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
Eric Butterworth
#83. I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed.
Pharrell Williams
#84. Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
Clare Short
#85. So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Ben Harper
#86. It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.
Melina Marchetta
#87. Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono
#88. I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.
Dimebag Darrell
#89. But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.
Tom Selleck
#90. The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.
Michael Eisner
#91. I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!
Kelli O'Hara
#92. I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.
Jacques Villeneuve
#93. It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.
Andrew Sean Greer
#94. I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
Laurie Metcalf
#95. Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
Barbara Kingsolver
#97. When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.
Martin Parr
#98. In reality, it's not that I don't care about your past. It's just that compared to your past, it's the present you, standing next to me, who's most important.
Kou Matsuzuki
#99. It's just that every story of woe and tragedy throughout history starts out with those exact same three words. 'There's this girl
Mia Sheridan
#100. But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
Alexander Payne
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