Best i-can & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.”

Ifs Knows Feels Stills I Can Ideas Song Can Do Lines Talking Hundred Finished No Idea Fifty

Author:Trevor Rabin

“I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.”

Ifs Thinking World Has Beens I Can Germs Analysts Microscopes Forensics

Author:Octavia Spencer

“My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.”

Ifs I Can Important Problem Theory Concern Connected Glad Manage Branches Contribution Particles Cosmology Gravitation

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.”

Ifs Knows I Can Character Stories Happens Actors Felt Behinds Involved Scene Personal Life Get Involved Behind The Scenes

Author:Eric Stoltz

“In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.”

Ifs Feels I Can Past Can Not

Author:Mark Strong

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.”

Ifs I Can Ends Remember Fall Perfect Happened Health Buddhism Boards Athletics Diving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.”

People Ifs Writing I Can Matter States Play Stories Shows Happens Worry Confused Publishing What Matters Show Business

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Character Practice Knowing Circumstances Research Connections Manifest

Author:Joshua Leonard

“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”

Ifs Feels I Can Real Matter Character Action Interesting Reader Kings Regard Meetings Queens Plot Compelled Twists Meeting Someone Plot Twists

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Walks Watches Seeing Impression

Author:Michael Shannon

“I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.”

Ifs Humans Looks I Can Human Beings Reptiles

Author:Ralph Steadman

“If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.”

Ifs Thinking Giving I Can Boys Corporations Humanistic Injection

Author:Ruth Simmons

“I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.”

Ifs I Can Fun Treats Having Fun

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Voice Hurt Stage Needed Balance Singing Ears Loud Help Me

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.”

Ifs Feels Persons I Can Failing Standards Guilt Quitting Disappointed

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.”

Ifs Long Doe I Can Matter Why Not Things I Love Does It Matter

Author:James Franco

“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying I Can Real Helping Bigs Girl Can Do Help Me I Can Do It Luggage

Author:Carrie Underwood

“The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.”

Ifs I Can Facts Months Six Fats Insane Not Sure Six Months Atlanta Catering Best Food Single Ladies

Author:Ricky Whittle

“The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.”

Ifs Knows I Can Two Enough Able Turns Next Race Know How Middle Pure Starting Entertainment Honestly Get Up Packs Championship Will Power Grids Latches

Author:Dan Wheldon

“Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.”

Ifs I Can Winning Sports Can Do Whatever It Takes

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.”

Ifs World Stills I Can Ends Home Careers Baseball End Of The World Appreciative Baseball Love

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Helping Easy Challenges Know How Struggle Routes Easy Way Easy Route

Author:Jack White

“Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.”

Ifs Wells Looks I Can Challenges Steps Something New Toes

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.”

Ifs I Can Helping Able Scripts Help Me Transmit

Author:Jessica Walter

“If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous. To me, this is just a job.”

Ifs Thinking Feels I Can

Author:Shayne Ward

“But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.”

Ifs I Can Fighting Clear Effects Arms Depends Strategy Iraq Careful Perceive Ministers Iran Prime Be Careful Prime Minister Iranian Militia

Author:David Ignatius

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind I Can Play Feelings Would Be Given Identity Football Bed Desperate American Football

Author:Keith Millard

“I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.”

Ifs Feels I Can

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.”

Ifs I Can Light Buddhism Picks Orientation Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.”

Ifs World I Can Married Miles Girlfriend Climbs Being Married My Girlfriend Backpacking

Author:Matt Long

“I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.”

People Ifs I Can Can Do Cry Okay Let Me Auditions

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.”

Ifs Knows Trying Wells I Can Hard Kids Honest Work Out Being Honest Try Your Best

Author:Ryan Lochte

“I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Whole Care Hours Half Records Sorry Don't Care I Don't Care I'm Sorry Preference Personal Preferences

Author:Tommy Lee

“For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.”

Ifs I Can Ends Artist Love Is Music Is Bass Contributing

Author:Tony Levin

“In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.”

Ifs Way I Can Care Space Fiction Prose I Care Vivid Unlocking

Author:Ben Marcus

“If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.”

Ifs Feels Trying I Can Play

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Looks I Can Ideas Shows Next Fans Succeed No Idea Next Time Honored Do The Best Best Work Flattered

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.”

Ifs I Can Real Actors Felt Can Do Being True Songwriters I Can Do It

Author:Barry McGuire

“If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.”

Ifs I Can Stories Laughing Bigger

Author:Bernie Mac

“I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.”

Ifs I Can Becoming Habit Doing Nothing

Author:Catherine McCormack

“I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.”

Ifs Want I Can Purpose Fun Sides Opinion Involved Cameras Journalism Lighters Lighter Side

Author:Eleanor Mondale

“If I can walk, I'll play.”

Ifs I Can Play Walks

Author:Ricky Williams

“My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.”

People Ifs Way Want Children I Can Helping Desire Motivation Can Do Normal Can Do Something

Author:Panayiotis Zavos

“I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.”

Ifs Want I Can Guy Bad Guys Snipers

Author:Chris Kyle

“I didn't understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you'll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right.”

Ifs I Can Turns Fun Fans Car Couple Mets Driving Circles Nascar Car Driving

Author:Alonzo Bodden

“I’m always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make-up and hair and sometimes I’m very aware that I’m not like that. But I don’t think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Sometimes Would Be Stuff Can Do Perfect Hair Actresses Disguise Impressed

Author:Clemence Poesy

“The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'”

Ifs Said I Can Helping Life Is Proud Drinking Stranger Help Me Stop Drinking Yes I Can

Author:Matthew Perry

“And if I can can, you can can.”

Ifs I Can

Author:Maysoon Zayid

I Can Quotes

Related topics

I Can Quotes