If It Was You Quotes

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

Its about letting go so you can get what what you want.

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but it seems we just take everything in stride.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

Take your mind off yourself. Focus on what you are doing and how you can do it better.

Tell Me what you want, and I'll Show you how to get it.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.