It Is What It Is Quotes (page 96)

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• people
• saying
• imagination

What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak . . . Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• light
• giving
• house

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage. Woody Allen

• fitness
• desire
• another

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. Thomas Hobbes

• love
• to live
• book

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! Thomas Babington Macaulay

• mind
• little
• faith

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? Ernest Hemingway

• evil
• leaving
• lost

What place is this,” Drizzt asked the cat quietly, “that I call home? These are my people, by skin and by heritage, but I am no kin to them. They are lost and ever will be. “How many others are like me, I wonder?” Drizzt whispered, taking one final look. “Doomed souls, as was Zaknafein, poor Zak. I do this for him, Guenhwyvar; I leave as he could not, His life has been my lesion, a dark scroll etched by the heavy price exacted by Matron Malice’s evil promises. “Goodbye, Zack!” he cried, his... R. A. Salvatore

• him
• amazing
• manly

It is amazing from what a mere fraction of a fact concerning him a man will dare judge the whole of another man George MacDonald

• experience
• learning
• home

It was from a weekly visit to the cinema that you learned (or tried to learn) how to strut, to smoke, to kiss, to fight, to grieve. Movies gave you tips about how to be attractive (...). But whatever you took home from the movies was only part of the larger experience of losing yourself in faces, in lives that were not yours - which is the more inclusive form of desire embodied in the movie experience. The strongest experience was simply to surrender to, to be transported by, what was on the... Susan Sontag

• life
• wild
• doings

What is it you want to do with this wild, precious life. Mary Oliver

• grandchildren
• glaciers
• likely

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is. Stephen Colbert

• life
• she
• evening

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose. Cormac McCarthy

• friends
• friend
• watch

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us. Richard Bach

• giving
• bear
• saying

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins Charles de Lint

• short
• fun
• words

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? A. A. Milne

• you me
• life
• eyes

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. Walt Whitman