All Quotes

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
‐‐ Bill Rodgers

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
‐‐ George A. Sheehan

If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world.
‐‐ Javier Hernandez

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.
‐‐ Tim Gunn

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
‐‐ Anne Beatts

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.
‐‐ John Tesh

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
‐‐ Laura Wade

If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
‐‐ Haim Ginott

If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.
‐‐ Bruce Wilkinson

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.
‐‐ Al Gore

If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon's waning.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
‐‐ Mario Batali

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
‐‐ Sam Altman

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg

If you wanted to make a film about British teenagers, it would be... well, it wouldn't interest me; let's put it like that. They'd be listening to music I hate, watching TV all the time, and talking about 'Big Brother.'
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
‐‐ Jon Bon Jovi

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.
‐‐ Robert Irwin

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If you watch '90210,' you see my hair changing every episode - I've chopped it off, and I've kept it long. I've done it all to my hair on that show.
‐‐ Jessica Stroup

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
‐‐ Bob Hope

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.
‐‐ John Niven

If you watch a lot of television, the pacing, the quick cutting is so frenetic, but it doesn't always make it funnier. What I'm noticing is that when things are allowed to unspool more slowly, younger crowds really like it. They really appreciate it.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
‐‐ David Attenborough

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
‐‐ Brian Eno

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
‐‐ Julian Sands

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
‐‐ Bill Hader

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by myself, 'cause it's a little rougher.
‐‐ Ron White

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Tour,' I was probably the least redneck of everybody.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
‐‐ Jon Stewart

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.
‐‐ Morena Baccarin