All Quotes

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
‐‐ Frank Lane

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

If you want to see theater you go to New York.
‐‐ John O'Hurley

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
‐‐ Kage Baker

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.
‐‐ Steven Pressfield

If you want to send a message, try Western Union.
‐‐ Frank Capra

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
‐‐ Robert Redford

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg

If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
‐‐ Hakan Nesser

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
‐‐ Gabrielle Reece

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
‐‐ Katie Price

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
‐‐ Dick Clark

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
‐‐ Thomas R. Cech

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
‐‐ Shelby Foote

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.
‐‐ Ross Mathews

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
‐‐ Leo Szilard

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
‐‐ John D. Rockefeller

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.
‐‐ Richard Preston

If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.
‐‐ Charlotte Lamb

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.
‐‐ Jimmy Piersall

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
‐‐ Juan Antonio Bayona

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
‐‐ E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.
‐‐ Richard Hamming

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
‐‐ Jim Sasser

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
‐‐ Kurt Lewin

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
‐‐ Bob Parsons

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
‐‐ Randall Terry

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.
‐‐ Gus O'Donnell

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas