All Quotes

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
‐‐ Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
‐‐ Deanna Raybourn

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
‐‐ Brian Tracy

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.
‐‐ Rob Walton

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.
‐‐ Bernhard Goetz

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
‐‐ Stan Getz

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.
‐‐ Joe Miller

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.
‐‐ Alexey Miller

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
‐‐ Katy Perry

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

If you like my renditions of faerie-folk, then you will most certainly like Brian Froud's work.
‐‐ Tony DiTerlizzi

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.
‐‐ Nina Easton

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
‐‐ Edward Tufte

If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
‐‐ Amy Hoggart

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
‐‐ Ron Paul

If you like something, go for it.
‐‐ Elie Tahari

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.
‐‐ David Dewhurst

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.
‐‐ Tyler Hamilton

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
‐‐ Helen Vendler

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it.
‐‐ Tucker Max

If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey

If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that can't hit it out of the park, then you start moving guys around.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

If you liked my 'Ghost Rider' run, you're going to love what they're doing in 'Punisher.'
‐‐ Jason Aaron

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
‐‐ Robert Fritz

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.
‐‐ Martin Bashir

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
‐‐ Kaskade

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.
‐‐ Sid Caesar

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
‐‐ John Abercrombie

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
‐‐ Ed Koch

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

If you listen to most of my songs, the lyrics are pretty kind of dark, but I like to put it behind happy music because then it evens it out... I'm really happy, actually. Obviously I have my bad moments, but I always challenge myself to not put negativity out there because there's already enough.
‐‐ Shamir