All Quotes

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.
‐‐ Richard Powers

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.
‐‐ Matt Smith

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
‐‐ Elena Kagan

I think that, if there are topics that are just on people's minds, things manifest into reality out of the sort of global consciousness of being aware of those topics.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.
‐‐ Charles Stross

I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
‐‐ Erskine Bowles

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.
‐‐ Allen West

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.
‐‐ Michel Faber

I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.
‐‐ Dan Levitan

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
‐‐ Robert Smith

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
‐‐ Ray Liotta

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
‐‐ Shakira

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
‐‐ Laila Ali

I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.
‐‐ Tim Curry

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
‐‐ Adam Ross

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.
‐‐ Jane Horrocks

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.
‐‐ Cat Deeley

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
‐‐ Joe Klein

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
‐‐ Zach Woods

I think that if you're lucky enough to work with a stylist who pulls a rack from the beginning that you love everything on it, that's a blessing.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's where we're going.' If you do it 10 times, nobody wants to work for you. If you do it zero times, you have anarchy.
‐‐ Jeffrey R. Immelt

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
‐‐ Mary Cassatt

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
‐‐ Eva LaRue

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.
‐‐ Max Beesley

I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
‐‐ Rita Ora

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.
‐‐ Sarah Mlynowski

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
‐‐ Eddie Vedder

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.
‐‐ Marco Brambilla

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
‐‐ Harry Houdini