Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ismail Haniyeh

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.

Isla Fisher

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

Isak Dinesen

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Isak Dinesen

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

Isak Dinesen

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Iris Johansen

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Irvin Kershner

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Irvin D. Yalom

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

Irvine Welsh

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

Irvine Welsh

We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

Iris Murdoch

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

Iris Murdoch

Most real relationships are involuntary.

Ilka Chase

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

Imelda Marcos

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Imelda Marcos

Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.

Imelda Marcos

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Imelda Marcos

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Ilana Glazer

You can get real wacky on edibles.

Ike Turner

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

Ike Turner

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

Igor Stravinsky

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

Igor Stravinsky

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators....

Idi Amin

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

Idina Menzel

Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music. I am more than the notes I hit, and that's how I try to approach my life. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Idries Shah

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

Idries Shah

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Idries Shah

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Idris Elba

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

Idris Elba

I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It's more enticing for directors, I think.

Idris Elba

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

Hunter Tylo

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

I. F. Stone

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

Huston Smith

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.