Quotes of: It-is-what-it-is Keyword

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

Bob Saget

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

Wilbur Ross

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Samuel Butler

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Steve Berry

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Yuri Milner

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

Brian Posehn

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Les Dawson

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

C. JoyBell C.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Bruce Lee

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Wiz Khalifa

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Lisa Randall

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Robert Anton Wilson

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Michael Ignatieff

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Life

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the ...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

What does the novel know? It has no practical or educational aim; yet it knows what ordinary knowledge cannot seize. The novel's intricate tangle of character-and-incident alights on the senses with a hundred cobwebby knowings fanning their tiny thre...

The Din in the Head

We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were doing was wicked and evil and wrong... We thought Dust must be bad too, because they were grown up an...

The Golden Compass