If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
‐‐ Rebecca Pidgeon
If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
‐‐ Nina Easton
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
‐‐ Gary Bettman
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
‐‐ Sam Levenson
If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
‐‐ Tim Wise
If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders
If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.
‐‐ Sean Duffy
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
‐‐ Mao Zedong
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.
‐‐ Joe Moore
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
‐‐ Joanne Harris
If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their economic policies. They are the roadblock.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
‐‐ Dorothea Benton Frank
If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
‐‐ Marina Warner
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
‐‐ Sam Neill
If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
‐‐ Victor LaValle
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington
If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
‐‐ Kathryn Schulz
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
‐‐ Hans Selye
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
‐‐ Joshua Foer
If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau
If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.
‐‐ Morley Safer
If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
‐‐ Rachael Ray
If you want to look right now under Obama who our enemies are, just look at who he is nice to.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
‐‐ Regina Brett
If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.
‐‐ Jorge Cruise
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
‐‐ Kajol
If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
‐‐ George Gurdjieff
If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn
If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson's disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why. Head injuries are bad for you. They lead to Parkinson's disease.
‐‐ Gregory Petsko
If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
‐‐ Maurice Strong
If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
‐‐ Joe E. Lewis
If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle
If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.
‐‐ Colin Angle
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
‐‐ Tina Fey
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
‐‐ Olin Miller
If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.
‐‐ John Morgridge
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon
If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
‐‐ Carl Safina
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
‐‐ Brian Eno
If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky
If you want to make God happy, tell him your plans.
‐‐ Neneh Cherry
If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.
‐‐ Joshua Foer