I Quotes
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“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”
Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“If a physical overhaul brings more freedom, creativity, and self-worth then the process will add to the person’s depth and happiness. It would be a step closer to realising one’s inestimable worth. If the overhaul doesn’t do that then it is decorating skeletons.”
Source: Circles of Separation
“If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.”
“If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.”
“If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.”
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth a thousand meetings”
“If “a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video has to be worth at least 1.8 million words.”
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.”
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?”
Source: Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.”
Source: Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.”
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.”
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.”
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels....”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.”
“If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.”
“If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.”
“If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.”
“If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.”
“If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.”
“If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.”
“If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.”
“If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?”
“If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.”
“If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?”
“If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.”
Source: Life Blood
“If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?”
“If a plane is too heavy, it can’t fly safely. And if our spirits are too loaded down, our lives are unable to soar.”
Source: CALLED to Pray: 52 Devotions & Prayers for Women
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“If a plant is wild, living in a forest, it is not reliant on you at all. Dig that plant up, and resettle it in your garden, then it is slightly reliant on you. But if you put that plant in a pot, and bring it into your house, then it is totally reliant on you. It can no longer be called wild, and no longer survive, or breed, without your help. And that is what your leaders are constantly trying to do to you.”
“If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.”
“If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.”
“If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.”
“If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.”
“If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.”
“If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.”
“If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.”
“If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.”
“If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. It would be international news and could break the fabric of a club”
“If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.”
“If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.”
“If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“If a plus-size woman is not represented in fashion or on TV, what the hell are we doing?”
“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.”
“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.”
“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
Source: The journals of Jean Cocteau
“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.”