All Quotes

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.
‐‐ Maggie Williams

If Barack Obama weren't a U.S. citizen, I'm sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have figured that out by now.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
‐‐ Tom T. Hall

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
‐‐ Steven Wright

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
‐‐ Pete Rose

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.
‐‐ Nick Cave

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
‐‐ Peter York

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
‐‐ Neal Barnard

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
‐‐ Jack Black

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.
‐‐ Theresa May

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
‐‐ Jay McInerney

If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
‐‐ John Lennon

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.
‐‐ Russell Pearce

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
‐‐ Edmund White

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
‐‐ Patrick Dempsey

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
‐‐ Bob Kane

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
‐‐ Pat Mastelotto

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.
‐‐ Rich Lowry

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
‐‐ Ina May Gaskin

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
‐‐ James Broughton

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
‐‐ Luke Ford

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
‐‐ Jasmine Guy

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.
‐‐ Rumer Godden

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
‐‐ Douglas Wilder

If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
‐‐ Eric Braeden

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
‐‐ Patrick Whitesell

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
‐‐ Edward Bellamy

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
‐‐ Owen Hart

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
‐‐ Estelle Morris

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?
‐‐ Sarah Harrison