All Quotes

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.
‐‐ Roger Rees

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
‐‐ Robert Johnson

If she's not spoken for, and you come at her correctly, like a man, she'll get with you.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.
‐‐ George Cukor

If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.
‐‐ Leigh Michaels

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.
‐‐ John Bracken

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
‐‐ Shaun White

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
‐‐ Linda McCartney

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
‐‐ Charles Platt

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
‐‐ James Bovard

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp - or by an extremely adventurous female human.
‐‐ George M. Church

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
‐‐ Robert Frost

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
‐‐ Jesse Ball

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackwell

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
‐‐ Astro Teller

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
‐‐ Studs Terkel

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
‐‐ John Aubrey

If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
‐‐ Mackenzie King

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
‐‐ Lord Acton

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.
‐‐ Dick Williams

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
‐‐ Anna Freud

If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'
‐‐ Sukarno

If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?
‐‐ John Ridley

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I've never felt that. And I'll openly say that an intelligent person who is a sensitive person will be and should be in touch with their inner female.
‐‐ Anthony Warlow

If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
‐‐ Laura Wasser

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
‐‐ Ad Reinhardt

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
‐‐ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.
‐‐ Fred Ward

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
‐‐ Confucius

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'
‐‐ Trey Parker

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
‐‐ Marc Newson

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
‐‐ Payne Stewart