Isn Quotes
897 Isn quotes by 623 unique authors
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I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
— Margaret Atwood
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Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re…
— Randall Munroe
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Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something…
— Pauline Kael
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes…
— Ali Smith
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If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?
— David Horowitz
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the…
— Akira Kurosawa
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I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass.
— Manohla Dargis
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The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s…
— Andrew Wommack
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Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy,…
— Timothy Keller
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Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
— Josephine Tey
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The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the…
— David Ogilvy
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot…
— Jim Butcher
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Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that…
— Gillian Flynn
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Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity…
— Tim Cook
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Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the…
— Howard Lyman
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Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving…
— Francis Chan
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Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
— Bill Hicks
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Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections…
— Tory Burch
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For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.…
— Helen Vendler
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Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to…
— Noah Levine
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