All Quotes

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.
‐‐ Michelle Branch

If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
‐‐ Venus Williams

If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
‐‐ Anne Frank

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
‐‐ John Thorn

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.
‐‐ Toby Keith

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.
‐‐ Terence Winter

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
‐‐ Zac Brown

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.
‐‐ Sebastian Horsley

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
‐‐ Katie Couric

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
‐‐ Joan Collins

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'
‐‐ Spike Jonze

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
‐‐ Janis Joplin

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.
‐‐ Robert Irwin

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
‐‐ Julian Schnabel

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.
‐‐ Mircea Monroe

If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
‐‐ Joe Torre

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
‐‐ Daymond John

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
‐‐ Natalia Tena

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
‐‐ Derrick Rose

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
‐‐ Isaac Mizrahi

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.
‐‐ Cory Booker

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

If I just swam all day, I'd lose it. That's why I do so many other activities. It keeps me sane.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.
‐‐ Joe Gibbs

If I keep thinking about yesterday, tomorrow might never come.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.
‐‐ Shannen Doherty

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.
‐‐ Steve Toltz

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.
‐‐ Max Brooks

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
‐‐ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
‐‐ Mickey Mantle

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
‐‐ Marc Wallice

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat