All Quotes

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
‐‐ Arne Jacobsen

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
‐‐ Catherine Drinker Bowen

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.
‐‐ Elizabeth Peyton

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
‐‐ John Ridley

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
‐‐ Robert Delaunay

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?
‐‐ Antonio Munoz Molina

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.
‐‐ Bill Halter

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
‐‐ Tobias Hill

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
‐‐ Pat Benatar

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
‐‐ Alan Lewis

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
‐‐ Steven Wright

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
‐‐ Michael Chang

If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously.
‐‐ Mark de Mori

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
‐‐ Eddie Vedder

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.
‐‐ Charlie Norwood

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.
‐‐ Joe Mantegna

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
‐‐ Leslie Stephen

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses.
‐‐ John C. Wright

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.
‐‐ Lynn Davies

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
‐‐ Edward Albee

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
‐‐ Lana Wachowski

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
‐‐ Regina Brett

If ballots won't work, bullets will.
‐‐ Malcolm X

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
‐‐ Serge Lang

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.
‐‐ Khaleda Zia

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

If Barack Obama goes on to win the election, there will be plenty of ink and video spent on chronicling the historic nature of the turnout among young voters and African-Americans. But as important as both constituencies have been to Obama - particularly in the primaries - it's Hispanics that could be putting him over the top on Nov. 4.
‐‐ Chuck Todd

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.
‐‐ Stephen Baldwin