All Quotes

If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.
‐‐ Dave Gahan

If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
‐‐ Brian McDermott

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'
‐‐ Ray Comfort

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
‐‐ Seth Rogen

If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.
‐‐ Tony McCoy

If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.
‐‐ Liam Smith

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

If you ask people, 'What do you think, should we kick kids off their family insurance policy in that 21- to 26-year-old age range?' You go through those... provisions that are already affecting the everyday lives of Americans, and people don't want to get rid of them.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
‐‐ Kurt Loder

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
‐‐ Jane Siberry

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'
‐‐ Rex Tillerson

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
‐‐ Carl Safina

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
‐‐ Bob Feller

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
‐‐ John Podesta

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
‐‐ Peter Welch

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.
‐‐ Colin Angle

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
‐‐ Dan Brown

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
‐‐ George Burns

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
‐‐ David Chang

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.
‐‐ Eli Broad

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
‐‐ Cyril Cusack

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
‐‐ John Bercow

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
‐‐ Florence Welch

If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
‐‐ Kate McKinnon

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
‐‐ Colin Wilson

If you asked me what my dream would be - obviously, 'NCIS' is a dream to me - I'd like to be on a period show.
‐‐ Cote de Pablo

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
‐‐ Emily Oster

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
‐‐ Connie Nielsen

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann

If you at any point forget that Wookiees aren't real, it's time to come up for air.
‐‐ Claudia Gray