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 only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.”
“If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?”
“If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.”
“If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.”
“If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.”
“If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
“If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.”
“If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.”
“If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.”
“If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.”
“If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.”
“If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.”
“If you've taken the job to be the stylist for a collection, then I think it's important for you to really listen to the designer and look at the board. Look at the wall, look at what the designer is interested in, and then move on to that. But the designer also must not lose sight of the reason for their point of view. Otherwise it won't come across.”
“If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.”
“If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.”
“If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.”
“If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.”
“If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“If you, as CEO, have recognized an approach as being the right one, you have to pursue it consistently, even if some people disagree. But it is now clear to everyone that we, as an automaker, have no alternative but to take [environmental protection] course.”
“If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.”
“If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.”
“If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it.”
“If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.”
“If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.”
“If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.”
“If you, the citizen, deliberately vote for someone who won't give you healthcare over someone who will, you need to have your head examined. Except you can't afford to have your head examined.”
“If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives.”
“If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color out of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for knowledge.”
Source: The Elements of Color
“If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.”
Source: Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel
“If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love”
“If you`re a Republican politician and you`re seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what are you going to say, you`re going to say equally crazy or maybe a little less crazy stuff.”
“If you`re in a Republican district that is leery of President [Donald] Trump,then, you might feel a little bit more exposed.Of course, if you`re in a swing district, then this town hall tension has to worry you which is why we haven`t seen many Republicans from swing districts actually hold these kinds of town halls.”
“If you`re in a safe Republican district, say Congressman [ Gus] Bilirakis,you probably don`t have much to worry about which is why you can get away with talking about death panels.”
“If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. Time to read is always time stolen. Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125”
“If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.”
“If Youku had adopted YouTubes business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.”
“If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.”
“If young children are frequently exposed to books containing images of people who do not look like them, or resources in the home corner which do not reflect their culture (cooking utensils, dressing-up clothes.... food), then they will come to believe that their attributes are of little value - this will have a negative impact on their racial identity. All children need to see positive images of people who look like them to enable them to think that they too can be successful and this is especially important for children who are racially minoritised. -Dr Stella Louis”
Source: Representation Matters: Becoming an anti-racist educator
“If young children boo me, that makes my day.”
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”
“If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.”
“If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.”
“If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.”
“If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.”
“If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.”
Source: Works
“If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.”
“If your a fly, fly away”
“If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.”
“If your absence doesn’t bother them, then your presence never mattered in the first place. I felt that!”
“If your absence doesn't bother them then your presence never mattered to them in the first place”