Isabella Bird

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. Isabella Bird

Isaiah Berlin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. Isaiah Berlin Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin Only barbarians are not curious about where they come [...]

Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that’s sold a half million copies. Irving Berlin The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin After you get what you want you don’t want it. Irving Berlin Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. Irving Berlin There’s [...]

Ingmar Bergman

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Ingmar Bergman I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the [...]

Ingrid Bergman

There are advantages to being a star though – you can always get a table in a full restaurant. Ingrid Bergman I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart. Ingrid Bergman If you took acting away from me, I’d [...]

Isaac de Benserade

The shameful never have dear friends. Isaac de Benserade

Isabella Beeton

A place for everything and everything in its place. Isabella Beeton

Isaac Barrow

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. Isaac Barrow Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. Isaac Barrow It is safe to make a choice [...]

Iain Banks

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. Iain Banks You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing’s a double skill, really. Iain Banks As long as a film stays unmade, the book [...]

Irving Babbitt

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. Irving Babbitt Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. Irving Babbitt Since [...]

Ibrahim Babangida

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. Ibrahim Babangida For as long as our people are held [...]

Isaac Babel

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel

Isaac Butt

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. Isaac Butt

Ian Allison

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years. Ian Allison Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally. Ian Allison

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country’s infrastructure. Iyad Allawi It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. Iyad Allawi We are safer, [...]

Isabel Allende

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. Isabel Allende Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. Isabel Allende

Isaac Albeniz

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion. Isaac Albeniz

Ion Antonescu

I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order. Ion Antonescu

Ivo Andric

One shouldn’t be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. Ivo Andric Sadness is also a kind of defence. Ivo Andric When I am not desperate, I am worthless. Ivo Andric Searching for what I need, and I don’t even know precisely what [...]

Ian Anderson

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. Ian Anderson If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. Ian Anderson A lot of pop music is [...]

Idi Amin

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. Idi Amin Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. Idi Amin If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there [...]

Ivan Allen

We didn’t make the mistakes that many other cities did. Ivan Allen Atlanta? I think it’s the greatest city anywhere I know of. Ivan Allen The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit. Ivan Allen A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled [...]

Italo Calvino

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts. Italo Calvino A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. [...]

Irving Caesar

Picture you upon my knee, just tea two and two for tea. Irving Caesar

Imogen Cunningham

There are certain things you don’t discuss with Ansel, especially if you don’t agree. Imogen Cunningham Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. Imogen Cunningham Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives. Imogen Cunningham I’d never kill myself for a man. I wouldn’t do it for anybody. [...]

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