All Quotes

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
‐‐ Robert Dale Owen

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.
‐‐ Eva Amurri

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.
‐‐ Freddy Rodriguez

If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.
‐‐ Helen Craig

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.
‐‐ Morris Hite

If an adult is constantly criticizing how other people look, the girl will have a more critical voice about herself and others.
‐‐ Megan Shull

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
‐‐ Dora Russell

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
‐‐ Nathan Wolfe

If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
‐‐ Robert Fripp

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
‐‐ Arthur Eddington

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
‐‐ Billy Collins

If an artist knows you have respect for their talent - which I have to feel to my core, to sign them - they know that you're in their corner. That doesn't mean you have to be 'mum' on everything; it doesn't mean you can't raise your voice.
‐‐ Clive Davis

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.
‐‐ Phil Ramone

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.
‐‐ Don Kardong

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
‐‐ James Bovard

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.
‐‐ Chip Conley

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
‐‐ Jackie Mason

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
‐‐ David Ben-Gurion

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.
‐‐ Jeff Greene

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
‐‐ Sharad Pawar

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.
‐‐ George Stroumboulopoulos

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
‐‐ Ben Bradlee

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
‐‐ David O. Selznick

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
‐‐ Jeremy Taylor

If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.
‐‐ Sean Quinn

If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.
‐‐ Heather Brooke