All Quotes

If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermis - the so-called tectonic plates.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
‐‐ Mike Schmidt

If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
‐‐ Ted Dekker

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
‐‐ David Viscott

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
‐‐ Ann Beattie

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.
‐‐ Chris Whittle

If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
‐‐ Oliver North

If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

If you could just turn pro and go immediately to the PGA Tour, that would be one thing. But that's not how it works. And that's not the lifestyle I want.
‐‐ Scott Harvey

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?
‐‐ Amity Gaige

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
‐‐ Emmet Fox

If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.
‐‐ David Zaslav

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
‐‐ Mary Roach

If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along.
‐‐ Paul Graham

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.
‐‐ Tim LaHaye

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.
‐‐ Carol Alt

If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
‐‐ Nancy A. Collins

If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?
‐‐ Logan Mankins

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
‐‐ Niklas Zennstrom

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
‐‐ Bill Gates

If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.
‐‐ Linus Roache

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.
‐‐ Arthur Quiller-Couch

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns.
‐‐ John Sarbanes

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.
‐‐ Brendon Burchard

If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
‐‐ Charles Leadbeater

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
‐‐ Kim Dotcom

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
‐‐ Linford Christie

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.
‐‐ Douglas Conant

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
‐‐ Jil Sander

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
‐‐ Susan George

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.
‐‐ Mark Shand

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?
‐‐ Elijah Wood

If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz

If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
‐‐ Billy Graham

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin