If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
‐‐ Dorothy Gilman
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
‐‐ David Bailey
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
‐‐ Iris Dement
If something can be proven to work, we should try it... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
‐‐ Bob Marley
If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.
‐‐ Gene Wilder
If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.
‐‐ Rene Russo
If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
‐‐ Norman Cousins
If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.
‐‐ Don McLean
If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon
If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently.
‐‐ Steve Forbert
If something excites you, go for it.
‐‐ Chad Hurley
If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.
‐‐ Skrillex
If something goes wrong with my switch, there's no way anyone from Bharti can do anything about it. An Ericsson guy is going to have to come and fix it. I don't manufacture it; I can't maintain or upgrade it. So I'm thinking, 'This doesn't really belong to me. Let's just throw it out.'
‐‐ Sunil Mittal
If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?
‐‐ Meghan Daum
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
‐‐ Bob Dole
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
‐‐ Hans Zimmer
If something happens to me, the government is co-responsible.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn
If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible.
‐‐ Albert Pujols
If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
‐‐ Arthur Blank
If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
‐‐ Dean Koontz
If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
‐‐ Rachel Maddow
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
‐‐ John Cage
If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.
‐‐ David Strickland
If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.
‐‐ Mark Billingham
If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.
‐‐ Leo Fender
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
‐‐ Bill Griffith
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
‐‐ Al Yankovic
If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.
‐‐ Helmut Lang
If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it.
‐‐ Tony Bennett
If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
‐‐ Albert Ellis
If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive
If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra
If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal
If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.
‐‐ Sheryl WuDunn
If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.
‐‐ Jim Otto
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.
‐‐ Lilith Saintcrow
If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston
If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers
If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.
‐‐ Roberto Orci
If something makes me happy, I go with it. It's as simple as that.
‐‐ Ella Henderson