Best Ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

Ifs I Can Reason Shows Turns Belief Audience Week Television Tvs Following Endless Things To Do Shakes Insecurity No Reason Television Shows

Author:Chuck Lorre

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.”

Ifs Found Higher Projects One Time Probability

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.”

People Ifs Trying I Can Running Hate Fighting I Hate Running Away

Author:Diego Luna

“I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Might House Childhood Conversation Great Things Childhood Friend

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.”

Ifs World Believe Children Jobs Parent Pawns

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.”

Ifs Problem Life Is Lucky Grateful

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.”

Ifs Stuff Hell Depends Insane Scare

Author:Jenny Lawson

“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.”

Ifs Trying Important Can Do Creative Information Diversity Increase Important Things Exposed Volume

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.”

Ifs Firsts Happens New York Involved Meetings Maps Categories Hurricanes

Author:Joe Lhota

“I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stories Tone

Author:Julia Leigh

“I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.”

Ifs Way Looks Sometimes Helping Crazy Comfort Scene Nervous Idiot Help Me Embarrassed Jitters

Author:Logan Lerman

“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Made Film Watches Growing Up Growing Long Time My Friends Towns Classic Best Times Best Family Friends Growing Up

Author:Logan Lerman

“It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.”

Ifs World Feels Wells Ends Sat End Of The World

Author:Marie Lu

“If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.”

Ifs Want

Author:Matthew Lewis

“If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Care Updates Flickr

Author:Max Levchin

“If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Lasts Social Century Building Products

Author:Max Levchin

“If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.”

People Ifs Games Challenges Produce Months Tests Designer Quests Compelled Fractions

Author:Max Levchin

“If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.”

Ifs Two Products Radio Superiors Agents Compare Distribution Slides

Author:Max Levchin

“If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.”

People Ifs Products Connected Brands Narrative Really Cool Positive Experiences

Author:Max Levchin

“I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?”

Ifs Want Said Wanted Why Not

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'”

Ifs Wells Two Hard Practice Months Directors Call Me Two Months

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Asks Directors Hollywood Ask Me Tarantino Hollywood Movies

Author:Melanie Laurent

“From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.”

Ifs Age Mother Anything In Life

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.”

Ifs Way Wealth Cases Mets Customers Objectives Managers Performing Fund Assets Being Me

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.”

People Ifs Knows Littles Opportunity Solutions Perceive Reverse Fulfilled Outlook

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.”

Ifs Successful Building Mantras This Society Jamaica Ailments Commercial Banks

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.”

Ifs Thinking Years Wiser Best Year

Author:Ray Lewis

“How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?”

Ifs Kids Moral Alive Complexity

Author:Richard Louv

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.”

Ifs Hands Would Be Black Coffee Cups Black Coffee

Author:Aaron Levie

“All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.”

Ifs Thinking Share Information Computer Window Majority Communicate Connected Access Devices Iphone Ecosystems Ipads Androids

Author:Aaron Levie

“If I am not moving I get bored very easily.”

Ifs Moving Bored

Author:Adriana Lima

“If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'”

Ifs Men Come Up Rome Grey Anatomy Grey's Anatomy

Author:Kevin McKidd

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Looks Ends Play Choices Three Roles Four Casts Villain Four Years

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.”

Ifs Men Trying Said Stills Enough Taste Composer Happy Man

Author:Kurt Masur

“Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Play Beautiful Clear Pieces Orchestra

Author:Kurt Masur

“I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.”

Ifs Blame Freak Neurotic Control Freak

Author:Laura Marling

“If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.”

People Ifs Thinking Honest Critics Spots Credibility

Author:Leonard Maltin

“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”

Ifs Firsts Jobs Kings Refuse Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Country Running Black Imagination Dark

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.”

Ifs Thinking I Can

Author:Marian McPartland

“That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.”

Ifs Knows Play Feelings Used Fall Tunes Mary Minors Fall Into Place

Author:Marian McPartland

“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Ifs Men Asks Difficult Genius

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.”

People Ifs Thinking Hard Certain Stars Middle Hollywood Asking Assuming Busy Actresses Lists Movie Star Hollywood Movies

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.”

Ifs I Can Different Done Wanted Records Tvs Actresses Theatre Dancer Different Things Soap

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Hands Together Doctors Praise Treatment Working Together

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.”

Ifs Wells Book Names Vulgar

Author:Mary MacLane

“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

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