All Quotes

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
‐‐ Bruce Cockburn

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.
‐‐ Kina Grannis

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
‐‐ Karen Black

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms.
‐‐ Sukarno

If I've achieved a higher respect for women and for their role in society, then I would be very happy. That would really be my greatest wish.
‐‐ Rula Ghani

If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.
‐‐ Avan Jogia

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
‐‐ Julian Clary

If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.
‐‐ Alice Waters

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.
‐‐ Pete Seeger

If I've got an event coming up, I might buy myself a new suit. I prefer wearing suits to dresses - I reckon I've got about 15.
‐‐ Nicola Adams

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.
‐‐ Rob Walton

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
‐‐ Jack Dee

If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
‐‐ Lesley Gore

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.
‐‐ Jody Watley

If I've learned anything, it's to live in the moment, and the gift that cancer gives you is, you just assume I'm only here today, and I am going to seize that moment and cherish it.
‐‐ Kathy Giusti

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
‐‐ Patti Smith

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
‐‐ Sam Kinison

If I've learnt anything over the last six years it's that the most important thing is the strength of our economy. That is how we pay for our NHS, how we build schools, how we provide opportunities for people. And I'm in absolutely no doubt that our economy will be stronger if we stay in and will be weaker and at risk if we leave.
‐‐ David Cameron

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'
‐‐ Timur Bekmambetov

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.
‐‐ Steve Toltz

If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
‐‐ Ian Fleming

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
‐‐ Barry Mann

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.
‐‐ Burning Spear

If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

If I walk into a store, I'm going to buy the best jacket or the best item in the store, hands down.
‐‐ Theophilus London