All Quotes

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
‐‐ Diana Wynne Jones

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
‐‐ Ted Danson

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
‐‐ Marion Barry

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
‐‐ Les Brown

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
‐‐ Gary Busey

If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
‐‐ Nik Wallenda

If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.
‐‐ Glynn Turman

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.
‐‐ Tom Hicks

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
‐‐ Hans Blix

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
‐‐ Lance Ito

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
‐‐ Martin Cruz Smith

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
‐‐ Cecil Taylor

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
‐‐ Lykke Li

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.
‐‐ Maria Menounos

If you take the time to visit rural regions, where horsemen ride by and yurts are set up in summer meadows, you will come to know that the Kazak culture lives on.
‐‐ Tim Cope

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
‐‐ Sara Bareilles

If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.
‐‐ Dave Brat

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.
‐‐ Ron Eglash

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.
‐‐ Robert Redford

If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
‐‐ Byron Dorgan

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
‐‐ Daniel Cudmore

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
‐‐ John Dingell

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
‐‐ Jamie Moyer

If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.
‐‐ Lucas Till

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
‐‐ Bennie Thompson

If you talk to your body, it will listen.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
‐‐ Takeru Kobayashi

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
‐‐ Steven Wright

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.
‐‐ Louise Hart

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
‐‐ Billy Joel