Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Collier

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Bruce Greenwood

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

David Petraeus

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

Ogden Nash

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Tim Vine

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Evel Knievel

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

Abraham Cahan

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Jason Calacanis

If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

Joe Perry

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

Booboo Stewart

If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt.

Donald Miller

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Francisco Costa

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

John W. Gardner

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Anita Baker

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

John Mellencamp

If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

Victoria Moran

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

B. F. Skinner

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

Dannel Malloy

I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.

Robert M. Gates

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

Bharati Mukherjee

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

Brigitte Bardot

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Walter Annenberg

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Maria Mitchell

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

Rachel Joyce

I have written stories since I was a child.

Johnny Isakson

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Leelee Sobieski

I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.

Christopher Eccleston

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Alan Dean Foster

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

Linus Pauling

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

Brene Brown

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Tamala Jones

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?

John Lee Hooker

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.

Abbey Clancy

I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.

Ben Kingsley

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

Lisa Ling

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

Manfred von Richthofen

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Prince William

I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.

Chantal Sutherland

I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.

Alan Shearer

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

Niklas Zennstrom

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

Christine Quinn

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

Karolina Kurkova

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

Tyler Oakley

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

Theo Rossi

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

Courteney Cox

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

David Blaine

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Paul Ince

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

Michael Cunningham

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.