All Quotes

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.
‐‐ Jim Crace

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.
‐‐ Carol Channing

If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.
‐‐ Shah Rukh Khan

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.
‐‐ Martha Beck

If I tell you a story, you can choose to believe me, or you can question it.
‐‐ John Burnside

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
‐‐ Jonny Greenwood

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
‐‐ Evan Parker

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
‐‐ Sadie Jones

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.
‐‐ Grace Poe

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.
‐‐ Michael Che

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'
‐‐ Rachel Tucker

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
‐‐ Mike Weir

If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.
‐‐ Simone Biles

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.
‐‐ Jonny Lee Miller

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
‐‐ Gary Numan

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
‐‐ Max Brooks

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'
‐‐ Robert Webb

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
‐‐ Andrew Mason

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
‐‐ Yunus Emre

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

If I told you how many times guys on set get spray muscles... men need to realize that they don't need to live up to what they think they need to live up to!
‐‐ Nikki Reed

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
‐‐ John Phillips

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.
‐‐ Richard Berry

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.
‐‐ Claire Danes

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
‐‐ Jake Johnson

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
‐‐ Ed Koch

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
‐‐ Larry David

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
‐‐ Brian Eno

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
‐‐ Peter Welch