All Quotes

If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
‐‐ Yanis Varoufakis

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
‐‐ Eisaku Sato

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
‐‐ Mark Russell

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
‐‐ Alan Moore

If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.
‐‐ Joel Silver

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
‐‐ Emanuel Ax

If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.
‐‐ Richard DeVos

If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow

If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.
‐‐ Harry Triguboff

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
‐‐ Angela Carter

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

If the Beatles made England swing for the young, then Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs, such as Paul McCartney's 'Live and Let Die,' on the pop charts.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
‐‐ Thomas Gray

If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.
‐‐ Ron Shock

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
‐‐ James Longstreet

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.
‐‐ Sebastian Vettel

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
‐‐ Nicole Krauss

If the books are selling, the money will follow.
‐‐ Larry Kirshbaum

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.
‐‐ Chuck Close

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
‐‐ George Lucas

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
‐‐ Lyall Watson

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
‐‐ Tabitha Soren

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
‐‐ Tabitha Soren

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
‐‐ Neville Marriner

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.
‐‐ Charlie Ergen

If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.
‐‐ Jon Corzine

If the campaign is about issues, we will win.
‐‐ Scott DesJarlais

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted.
‐‐ Giulio Natta

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.
‐‐ Chuck Zito

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.
‐‐ Amanda Abbington

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling

If the characters are acting true to themselves, then that chemistry and suspense will flow.
‐‐ Julie Kenner

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.
‐‐ Ariel Rechtshaid

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
‐‐ Eve Arnold