All Quotes

If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
‐‐ Franz Beckenbauer

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
‐‐ Anatole France

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?
‐‐ Jim Webb

If a model is going to make some shoes, she's going to make them comfortable.
‐‐ Karen Elson

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
‐‐ Douglas Hofstadter

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
‐‐ Bill Hader

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
‐‐ Seth Grahame-Smith

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
‐‐ Phil Collins

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
‐‐ Moby

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
‐‐ John Hawkes

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
‐‐ Howard E. Koch

If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
‐‐ Mario Andretti

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
‐‐ Ruth Asawa

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.
‐‐ Seth Grahame-Smith

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.
‐‐ Jane Yolen

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.
‐‐ Eve Best

If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.
‐‐ Frederick Banting

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
‐‐ John McCarthy

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
‐‐ Billy Graham

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
‐‐ Hortense Odlum

If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
‐‐ Frances Farmer

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
‐‐ Miguel de Unamuno

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
‐‐ Keith Jarrett

If a person's around me talking about '92, or 2005, I get away from them quickly. I don't want to be around anybody talking about the past.
‐‐ Juicy J

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
‐‐ Maimonides