All Quotes

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.
‐‐ Christine Elise

If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.
‐‐ Emma Watson

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
‐‐ Ben Nicholas

If I could work with Eddie Murphy on 'SNL,' I think I could quit comedy forever. For me and my generation, he's God.
‐‐ Michael Che

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
‐‐ Antony Sher

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
‐‐ Paul Auster

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.
‐‐ Ryan Eggold

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
‐‐ Mackenzie Astin

If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
‐‐ Billy Higgins

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
‐‐ Claudette Colbert

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
‐‐ Douglas Sirk

If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
‐‐ Im Dong-Hyun

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.
‐‐ Mary Roach

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.
‐‐ Sante D'Orazio

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
‐‐ Marc Chagall

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.
‐‐ Rihanna

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
‐‐ Mickey Gilley

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
‐‐ Nellie Melba

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
‐‐ Bryan Robson

If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
‐‐ Ben Wheatley

If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

If I'd find a dog, I'd try to find the owner, of course, but it was mine! I just can't live without them; I love them so much. I have cats, too. People call me all the time and say, 'We know of a couple of cats people don't care for,' and I say, 'Bring them!' That's it - two words. I'm always open for that.
‐‐ Doris Day

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.
‐‐ Kent Beck

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
‐‐ Steve Carell

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.
‐‐ Philip Greenspun

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
‐‐ Bill Gates

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
‐‐ Rajiv Ouseph

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
‐‐ Ian McShane

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
‐‐ Herb Brooks

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.
‐‐ Richard Fleeshman

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
‐‐ Babe Ruth

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
‐‐ Harry S Truman