Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Laurel

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

Austan Goolsbee

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Roberto Clemente

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth,

Anne Sweeney

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Warren Rudman

If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

Bryn Terfel

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

Hugh Grant

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

Viswanathan Anand

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Andrew Weil

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

Leon Kass

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Thomas Fuller

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Sebastian Faulks

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

Randy West

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

Geddy Lee

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

Isaiah Mustafa

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Holly Near

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

J. P. Morgan

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

Scott McKenzie

If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have.

Hildegard Knef

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Barbara Billingsley

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

Moshe Dayan

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Susan Wojcicki

I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

Ratan Tata

I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

Lorelei Linklater

I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while.

Bill Wyman

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Nat Wolff

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Hilaire Belloc

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

David Brainerd

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

Goldie Hawn

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Liz Carpenter

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

Luciano Vincenzoni

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.

Les Paul

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

Tyler Christopher

I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.

Fatima Siad

I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

Kevin P. Ryan

I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.

Mia Hamm

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

Nadia Comaneci

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Peta Todd

I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.

Margaret Rutherford

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

Ana Beatriz Barros

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

Edward Tufte

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Mario Monti

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Barnett Newman

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

Nneka

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

Bob Uecker

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

Kimberly Willis Holt

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Peter Cushing

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Elena Anaya

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.