I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.”
“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”
“If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.”
“If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.”
“If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.”
“If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.”
“If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.”
“If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.”
Source: A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors
“If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.”
Source: The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels
“If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.”
Source: McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
“If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."”
“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”
“If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.”
“If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.”
“If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of
Heaven first.”
“If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.”
“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
“If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.”
“If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.”
“If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...”
“If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!”
“If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.”
“If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.”
“If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.”
“If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”
“If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize.”
“If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.”
“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”
“If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't understand.”
Source: Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
“If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.”
“If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.”
“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
“If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.”
“If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.”
“If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.”
“If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.”
“If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.”
“If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.”
“If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.”
“If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.”
Source: Little Brother
“If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.”
“If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.”
“If you've never tried drugs, DON'T. And if you have, pray.”
“If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?”
“If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.”
“If you've never wept and want to, have a child.”
“If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.”
Source: Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
“If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.”
Source: Old Filth
“If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.”
Source: Orson Welles: Interviews
“If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.”