All Quotes

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.
‐‐ Brett Hoebel

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.
‐‐ Daniel Pauly

If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
‐‐ Eleanor Clift

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
‐‐ Donald E. Westlake

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
‐‐ Stendhal

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx Brothers, think again. The biggest star - No. 1 in the 1936, '37 and '38 exhibitor polls - was a three-time box-office champ before she was 10. Shirley Temple, singer, dancer, and prime exemplar of Movie Cute, owned the '30s.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
‐‐ Anne Beatts

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
‐‐ Bill Ackman

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
‐‐ Rudy Rucker

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.
‐‐ George Lois

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
‐‐ Olivia Munn

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
‐‐ John Lasseter

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
‐‐ Arthur C. Brooks

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
‐‐ Alan Bennett

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
‐‐ Bruce Schneier

If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.
‐‐ Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.
‐‐ Jade Jagger

If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.
‐‐ Lea Michele

If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
‐‐ Olivia Culpo

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
‐‐ Donald Norman

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
‐‐ Olin Miller

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.
‐‐ Anna D. Shapiro

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.
‐‐ Erica Durance

If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.
‐‐ Tom Cole

If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy.
‐‐ Helen McCrory

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
‐‐ Henry Ford

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.
‐‐ Bob Fosse

If you think you can do it, you can.
‐‐ John Burroughs