Top 100 It's Either Quotes
#1. Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
Lou Holtz
#2. You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell
Judith McNaught
#3. I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. It's either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple
Neil Simon
#4. I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
Chadwick Boseman
#5. I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.
Ginni Rometty
#6. There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?
Ethan Coen
#7. Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.
William Safire
#8. You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.
Ann Cleeves
#9. Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.
Nikki Sixx
#10. For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
Rachel Kushner
#11. That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between
Mike Stud
#12. There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
Maisie Williams
#13. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing.
Keke Palmer
#14. Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
Tim Vine
#15. I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.
Carrot Top
#16. People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.
Minnie Driver
#17. Drive-by declaration of love, how romantic," Becca joked.
Zahara smirked. "Hey, it's either that or sending a carrier pigeon, but I have a feeling Rekesh would be pissed if a bird crapped all over him." ~Zahara and Becca
Annabell Cadiz
#18. Life is simple, it's either cherry red or midnight blue.
Lou Gramm
#19. When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip
#20. Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.
Tarek Saab
#21. It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
Bob Geldof
#22. Like my makeup, I keep my hair simple. It's either down or in a ponytail.
Behati Prinsloo
#23. It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.
LL Cool J
#25. When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.
Sylvester Stallone
#26. There's no such thing as mostly. It's either true or it ain't.
Lorraine Heath
#28. My first wife said, 'It's either that
guitar or me,' you know
and I give
you three guesses which one went.
Jeff Beck
#29. One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
Michael Caine
#30. Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.
Judah Friedlander
#31. It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.
Amanda Donohoe
#32. When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
Jeff Garlin
#33. The plan is to marry a doctor, It's either that or become a trolley-dolly and hit on a pilot.
Ken McClure
#34. There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.
Lee Morgan
#35. I think if you love someone, you shouldn't care about her appearance at all. Loving someone because of her physical attribute isn't love. It's either lust or crush.
Rachel Van Dyken
#36. Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
Walter Kirn
#37. Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.
Bisco Hatori
#39. "So, passive-aggressive is how you're going to play this?"
"Well, it's either that or aggressive-aggressive. And I'd prefer not to be arrested for domestic violence today. Maybe tomorrow.
Penny Reid
#40. It's either food or blood, Ethan.And given thats it's just me and you in this car right now, food would be considerably less complicated, don't you think?
Chloe Neill
#41. When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you.
Ufuoma Apoki
#42. I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.
Ben Crenshaw
#43. It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
Ninette De Valois
#44. I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
Yehuda Amichai
#45. Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.
Terry Gilliam
#46. This is the problem with time ... It doesn't follow its own rules. It stretches or compresses at will. It's either a lingering house guest or an escape artist.
Helen Humphreys
#47. Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.
Seamus Dever
#48. What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
Albert Brooks
#49. There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.
Jeff Dunham
#50. It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.
Greg Cipes
#51. To me there is a name for each person. I think it's marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It's either Gena or my mother or some other person.
John Cassavetes
#52. A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
Art Alexakis
#54. Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
Zara Phillips
#55. I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.
Bob Dole
#56. The "new black" doesn't blame other races for our issues. The "new black" dreams and realizes that it's not a pigmentation; it's a mentality. And it's either going to work for you, or it's going to work against you. And you've got to pick the side you're gonna be on.
Pharrell Williams
#57. I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.
Carnie Wilson
#58. Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
Khaled Hosseini
#59. it's either always a good time to start a company, or always a bad time. Your choice.
Jesse Tevelow
#60. The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
Alber Elbaz
#61. At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.
Terence Stamp
#62. Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#63. If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!
Prince
#64. Vee said," I'm trying to read the title he's holding ... hang on ... How to Be a Stalker."
"He is not checking out a book with that title." But I wasn't so sure.
"It's either that or How to Radiate Sexy Without Trying.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#65. Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.
Andrew Stanton
#66. American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
Corey Clark
#67. Your every emotion goes right over the top with a big audience. It's either laughter or tears, with no in-between. Those tigers in zoos, they must have a big opera all the time.
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.
Jonathan Ross
#69. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
Ben E. King
#70. Hearts may break, and relationships end, but life goes on. You can't stop life's motion; it's either you let life pass you by or you go with it's motion.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#71. To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Erskine Caldwell
#72. I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
Matthew Vaughn
#73. I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.
Craig Ferguson
#74. Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.
Tom Heinsohn
#76. Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
#77. I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.
Sharon Van Etten
#78. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.
Richard Branson
#79. If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'
Eddie Kaye Thomas
#80. You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
Sandra Bernhard
#81. I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#82. You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly.
Cassie Steele
#83. Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.
Toby Stephens
#84. Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.
Vikki Wakefield
#85. Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.
Ken Dodd
#86. The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.
Sam Zell
#87. It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)
Felicia Day
#88. When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead.
Patricia Cornwell
#89. The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
David Bowie
#90. In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'
Gillian Jacobs
#91. As far as the Internet was concerned, it didn't exist. And in this day and age, if the Internet says it doesn't exist, it's either dead boring or totally fascinating in a top secret men-in-black kind of way.
Cherie Priest
#92. They make three types of movies, and if you don't make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It's either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it's an animated film, or it's an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don't make movies about real people.
Rob Reiner
#93. You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns.
Toby Barlow
#94. No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life."
"Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes.
"Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
P.C. Cast
#95. It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.
Katharine Hepburn
#96. I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
M.I.A.
#97. I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.
Steve Carell
#98. You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
Hannah Simone
#99. Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
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