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

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

Ashton Kutcher

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

June Jordan

Randal Graves: I'd buy the Quick Stop and reopen it myself. That's what I'd do. That's what we should do.

Clerks II

Frank: What were you guys doing in the middle of the road, huh? What are you thinking?

Donnie Darko

Richard: What you cutting it like? Anthony: Dunno. Long hair Richard: What, like Bon Jovi? Anthony: [laughs] No

Dead Man's Shoes

[as they drive by an abandoned, half-destroyed apartment building] Jonathan: What is it? Alex: Soviets. Jonathan: What happened? Alex: [pause] Independence.

Everything Is Illuminated

Arthur: Now, once more, I must ride with my knights to defend what was, and the dream of what could be.

Excalibur

Annie Kinsella: Hey, what if the Voice calls while you're gone? Ray Kinsella: Take a message.

Field of Dreams

Raoul Duke: Finish the fucking story man! What happened? What about the glands?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Phil: Do you know what today is? Rita: No, what? Phil: Today is tomorrow. It happened.

Groundhog Day

[while trying to escape the crumbling cave] Mikey: What about the loot? Brandon Walsh: What about our lives?

The Goonies

Old Sophie: What a dump. When I think of castles, it's not what I picture.

Howl's Moving Castle

Mordecai: What happens after? The Stranger: Hmm? Mordecai: What do we do when it's over? The Stranger: Then you live with it.

High Plains Drifter

John Oldman: What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic had survived until the present day?

The Man from Earth

Gwenovier: Come on, Frank. What are you doing? Frank T.J. Mackey: What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you.

Magnolia

Leonard Shelby: I don't want your fucking money. Jimmy Grantz: Then what? What do you want? Leonard Shelby: I want my fucking life back!

Memento

Gil: It's understated but elegant. That's what you always say. Helen: Cheap is cheap. That's what I always say.

Midnight in Paris

Sara Goldfarb: [examining her newly dyed hair] Well then... what's orange? If this is red, I wanna know, What's orange?

Requiem for a Dream

Hanna Schmitz: It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what I think. The dead are still dead.

The Reader

Pete: Well, you know what my dad always said, Having dreams is what makes life tolerable.

Rudy

Doyle: What's in the bag? Karl: This'n that. Tooth paste and whatnot. Doyle: What's all them books? Karl: Different ones. One of 'em is the Bible.

Sling Blade