Top 100 If I Quotes
#1. I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.
Julie Klausner
#2. Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need.
Ace Antonio Hall
#3. Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#4. As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.
Jessica Alba
#5. If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.
Martina Mcbride
#6. If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.
Janice Markowitz
#7. As infuriating as he was, I found Forgiveness ... interesting. It's been impossible to forget, the way he looked at me. Not like I'm a dealer selling the drug he wants, or just another duty to be carried though. No, Forgiveness stared at me as if I'm someone.
And that's a drug all its own.
Kelsey Sutton
#8. My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
Paul Kane
#9. I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
Robert M. Gates
#10. I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
Kara Walker
#11. Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest.
Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#12. If I met a horse that looked like you, I'd find that horse attractive.
S.J. Kincaid
#13. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. She clucked her tongue at Sergei. "Father, you could have killed me."
"You know I would never do that. If I did, who would fetch my bread from the bakery every morning?
Evelyn Skye
#15. If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
Andy Summers
#16. Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed.
And if I don't know what's needed?
That's what your friends are for. We've all got different strengths. Together, we'll figure it out.
Rick Riordan
#17. One day I'll paint the perfect sunset--
if I can only find the words.
Atticus Poetry
#18. If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino
#19. For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'
Susanne Bier
#20. I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.
Ari Marcopoulos
#21. If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Ed Koch
#22. Want is quite a complicated word there, because there's volo, which means I want, but it's not usually used with people. Desidero? I feel the want of, I desire. Amabo? I will love. But what if I will never love? What if I will never desire? What if I will never want?
Numquam amabo?
Ali Smith
#23. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.
Fran Lebowitz
#24. I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.
Andy Samberg
#27. I hate it if I'm at a party and see nothing but gay men - I don't want to be there. If your party doesn't have sexy, wonderful women at it then it's not a party.
Jason Sellards
#28. I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...
Winifred Holtby
#29. I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.
Russell Simmons
#30. If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip.
George C. Scott
#31. God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me." - The Dreamer
James McBride
#32. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.
Ben Saunders
#33. If I want to 'f' a guy, I want to 'f' a guy.
S.E. Jakes
#34. I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.
Sonia Rykiel
#35. If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.
Roberto Duran
#37. What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible ...
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#38. If I didn't already love you, Jessica Chase, I'd fall in love with you all over again, every minute of every day.
Olivia Cunning
#39. So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
Al Oerter
#40. I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe
Stephen Hawking
#41. Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us.
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.
Dean Koontz
#42. If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
James Woods
#43. I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#44. I find myself praying more when things are harder. I also find myself drinking water more when I am thirsty, and eating more when I am hungry, and sleeping more when I am tired. And I've finally begun to accept that if I pray more when I am troubled, that's just as natural.
Eric Greitens
#45. You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
Sally Hawkins
#46. If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.
Edwin D. Ferretti III
#47. I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.
Jodi Picoult
#48. I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.
Adele
#49. You're nasty and you're loud,
you're mean enough for two,
If I could be a cloud,
I'd rain all day on you.
Jack Prelutsky
#50. Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
Billy Boyd
#51. I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#52. I'm very confident that if I get close to one of these pigs, i could put the smack down on it.
Joe Teti
#53. The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#54. If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?
Jeff Gannon
#55. Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.
Andy Serkis
#56. If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
Ted Williams
#57. I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.
Brittany Murphy
#58. Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.
Joyce Carol Oates
#60. Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.
Ryan Reynolds
#61. I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.
Robert Carlyle
#62. There is always a part
of my mind that is
preparing for the worst,
and another part of my
mind that believes if I
prepare enough for it, the worst won't
happen.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#63. I couldn't decide if I was more offended that people thought I was the kind of person who would kill myself over a boyfriend or that I was apparently too stupid to know how to do it right.
Eileen Cook
#64. If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#65. If I'm kept here much longer, I think I'll have to have another tantrum. They're certainly more satisfying than I ever suspected. I can see why a person would get in the habit of it.
Judith Merkle Riley
#66. I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
Johnny Vegas
#67. I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
Audre Lorde
#68. If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
Cheryl Rainfield
#69. Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.
Kate Ashfield
#70. I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
Truman Capote
#71. Fifteen minutes later, cold-showered and somewhat clear-headed, I walked into the bar certain of two things. If I was going to stay in my very comfortable closet, I needed to avoid my new boxing trainer. And I needed a fucking drink.
N.R. Walker
#72. When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
Plutarch
#73. But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.
Madeleine L'Engle
#74. If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them ... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life.
L.A. Witt
#75. If I must die, then I will die for the ones I love, for my compassion will be passed onto them and they will have the ability to do the same. That's what makes love so powerful.
Serena Winter
#76. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
Asif Kapadia
#77. If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror ... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'
James Packer
#79. In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by the time we're doing the next version of 'Roger Rabbit,' it would be nice if I was receiving my Nobel prize the same week.
Charles Fleischer
#80. got the Journal to buy me a Fat Mac." I had convinced the big guys in New York that if I was going to be writing about Apple, I'd better be familiar with their latest machines.
Brent Schlender
#81. My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman
#82. It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.
Orson Scott Card
#83. I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
Ashton Kutcher
#84. And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
Eminem
#86. It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.
W. Somerset Maugham
#87. If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.
Michelle M. Pillow
#88. So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.
Simon Cowell
#89. When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
Wayne Newton
#91. If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated
Nancy Pelosi
#92. Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.
Sandra Cisneros
#93. Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#94. I didn't have enough voice left to scream. And it wasn't like anything was going to change. No matter how much I cried, even if I let myself yell, things were never going to get better.
Morgan Matson
#95. If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
Dave Hickey
#96. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.
Whitney Houston
#97. I don't. But if I had your love, I wouldn't waste it like he does. He's playing a game with you. He'll regret pushing you away, though, when he realizes I'm here, waiting to catch you.
Jessica Hawkins
#98. I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers.
Penny Reid
#99. What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried.
Albert Fish
#100. If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.
Quentin Tarantino
