All Quotes

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

If you only get one roller-coaster ride, you don't want to be thinking about the second one when you're on it.
‐‐ Greg Poehler

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.
‐‐ Eli Pariser

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.
‐‐ Stacy London

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
‐‐ John Avlon

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
‐‐ Miranda Richardson

If you open my wardrobe, it's very boring.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.
‐‐ Jerry Greenfield

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.
‐‐ Robert Cailliau

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
‐‐ Donald Knuth

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
‐‐ Maria Bartiromo

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
‐‐ James Woolsey

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.
‐‐ Mohamed Al-Fayed

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

If you own a toll road, you don't care how many passengers are in each car or what kind of car it is. You just want as many cars to move down the road as possible, and you make damn certain they pay their tolls, okay?
‐‐ Richard Kinder

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
‐‐ John Sulston

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.
‐‐ Michael Sandel

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.
‐‐ Suze Orman

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
‐‐ James Goldsmith

If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
‐‐ Ian Millar

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
‐‐ Ambrose Burnside

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
‐‐ Jack Welch

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.
‐‐ Stan Mikita

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
‐‐ Harry Hamlin

If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
‐‐ Lin Dan

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
‐‐ Samuel West

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
‐‐ Daniel Bruhl

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
‐‐ Count Basie

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
‐‐ Elliott Smith

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni