All Quotes

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
‐‐ James McBride

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.
‐‐ Fred Seibert

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
‐‐ Eric San

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
‐‐ Gerry Adams

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.
‐‐ Robert Iler

If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.
‐‐ Donna Lynne Champlin

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
‐‐ Mike Jackson

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
‐‐ Brad Bird

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
‐‐ Carl Olson

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
‐‐ Noel Coward

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
‐‐ Dan Webster

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.
‐‐ Bob Goodlatte

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
‐‐ Joe Biden

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
‐‐ Frank Delaney

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
‐‐ Roger Rosenblatt

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
‐‐ Jesse James Garrett

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

If you never budge, don't expect a push.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes

If you never change your mind, why have one?
‐‐ Edward de Bono

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
‐‐ Bobby Moore

If you never give up, you'll be successful.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
‐‐ Natalia Vodianova

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
‐‐ Afrojack

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.
‐‐ John Barrow

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
‐‐ Joel Hodgson

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
‐‐ Brian Koslow

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.
‐‐ Ross Kemp

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
‐‐ Jamie Oliver

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.
‐‐ Stephen Bennett

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
‐‐ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos