Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Ripert

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

Niklas Zennstrom

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

Lucinda Williams

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Elijah Wood

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

Russell Banks

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Amy Poehler

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Kumail Nanjiani

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Werner Herzog

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

Roger von Oech

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Charlotte Rampling

If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.

Carmen Electra

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

Roger Moore

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

Alicia Machado

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Mehmet Oz

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Kelly Rowland

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

Raymond Bonner

If you don't like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.

Elizabeth Olsen

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

Rafael Nadal

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

Jenifer Lewis

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

Val McDermid

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

David Hasselhoff

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

Bobby Darin

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Anita Roddick

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Mark Spitz

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

Liev Schreiber

If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

Robert Smith

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Trevor Nunn

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Phil Ramone

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

Glenn Frey

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

Eddie Izzard

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

Robin Wright

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

Richard Serra

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

Hilary Mantel

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

Pierre Omidyar

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

Lance Gross

If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

Idris Elba

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

Ian McDiarmid

If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

Lance Ito

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Roman Polanski

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Dan Phillips

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

Azzedine Alaia

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

Gene Weingarten

I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.

Donald Berwick

I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving.

Patricia Hewitt

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Lisa Whelchel

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Kathy Baker

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

Gordie Howe

I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

Bailee Madison

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

Robert Kazinsky

I honestly dont know whether I can ever top the experience of Pacific Rim.

Bobby Hull

I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman.