All Quotes

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.
‐‐ Paul Allen

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.
‐‐ Jeremy Sisto

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
‐‐ Patrick Wang

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
‐‐ Usain Bolt

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.
‐‐ Mark Strong

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
‐‐ Cormac McCarthy

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
‐‐ Ice Cube

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.
‐‐ Neil Turok

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.
‐‐ Stephen Elop

If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
‐‐ Aaron Levie

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
‐‐ Anita Hill

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
‐‐ David Hewson

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.
‐‐ Estelle

If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
‐‐ Andy Griffith

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
‐‐ Elon Musk

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?
‐‐ Mark Cuban

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
‐‐ Naya Rivera

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
‐‐ Jimmy Nail

If you think big, then it's going to be big.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.
‐‐ Brene Brown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
‐‐ Jeff Rich

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!
‐‐ Rob McClure

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.
‐‐ Luke Treadaway

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.
‐‐ Shaun White

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
‐‐ Confucius

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
‐‐ Tony Snow

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
‐‐ Red Adair

If you think it's going to rain, it will.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
‐‐ Jack Lemmon

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
‐‐ Bo Schembechler

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
‐‐ James Taylor

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
‐‐ Steven Wright

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
‐‐ Earl Wilson

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
‐‐ George Saunders