I Quotes
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“If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.”
Source: My Prison Without Bars
“If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.”
Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.”
“If I had all the money in the world, I would still prefer a humble hut.
[ — July 14, 1955]”
Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.”
“If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.”
“If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!”
“If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?”
“If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.”
“If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
to help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
than 2 stop and c what makes u cry”
Source: The Rose that Grew from Concrete
“If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.”
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
“If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.”
“If I had an opportunity like this, I’d drop you so fast…”. I laugh. “At least you’re honest.”
And I realize that yeah, she really is. That’s the thing about having real friends like Gigi and Sean. You feel like you can tell them the truth about stuff in your life, and they won’t rag on you or try and use it against you, or try to talk you out of it because it doesn’t fit with what they want. If I’d never come to this school, I wouldn’t have ever had that.”
Source: Diva
“If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.”
“If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.”
Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
“If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.”
“If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.”
Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910
“If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.”
“If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.”
“If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.”
“If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”
“If I had been a bricklayer Id still have been a journeyman.”
“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.”
“If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.”
“If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”
Source: Let Sleeping Vets Lie
“If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.”
“If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.”
“If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."
(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)”
“If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.”
“If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school's headmistress or another school authority, or at least I might have had the strength to tell of the name-callers on my own. But at the time, all I knew was that if I avoided eye contact, it was a hell of a lot easier to get through my days.”
Source: Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
“If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.”
“If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful”
“If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.”
“If I had been born in the 1700′s, presumably children had a bigger vocabulary than I had which means I wouldn’t have been able to recite fairy tales to kids because I’m not smart enough.
You know…?
I’d have to be like…..uh:
In time passed, though not long ago, there lived three pigs in stature, little in number, three, who being of an age both entitled and inspired to seek their fortune did set about to do thusly.
When they had traveled a distance, pig numbered first spake saying, “Harken Brethren, head this impetuous realm! Tarry me far from hearth and home I fear we shall fair *snort* not well!” And so being collectively agreed, but individually impaled, the diminutive swine sought each to erect himself an abode.....”
“If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.”
Source: Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment
“If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele”
“If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.”
“If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.”
“If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.”
Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.”
“If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.”
“If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.”
“If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.”
“If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.”
“If I had been more independent in my thinking then, I would have thought the matter through to a conclusion. But in those days it was easy for me to leave tangled thoughts knotted, their loose ends hanging. I didn't want to explore the treacherous mazes that such thoughts led into. I didn't want to reach the end of those mazes, because there, I knew, I would find myself and I was afraid I would not recognize myself after having taken so many confusing directions. I was beginning to suspect that I was not the person I was expected to be, and took it as evidence that somewhere I had taken a wrong turning.”
Source: Nervous Conditions