What If Quotes - Page 17

• It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Thinking, Glasses, Flames

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, D-503, 1921.

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• When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.

  James Inhofe

  Kids, Answers, Twenties

  "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future". Book by Jim Inhofe, 2012.

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• I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

  Carla Gugino

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

  Charles Fort

  Thinking, Pseudo, Coincidence

  Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin

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• Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

  Richard Carmona

  Boss, Just Being, Rays

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Ambition, Thinking

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.28, Vintage

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• Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

  Bootsy Collins

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  Karrine Steffans

  Life Is Short, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.

  Mary Rodgers

  Mother, Loneliness, Book

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• What, if as said, man is a bubble.
  [Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Men, Said, Ifs

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Confidence, Self, Doubt

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

  Darcey Steinke

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Real, Shoes

  "The evolution of Miley Cyrus: Hannah Montana grows into a diva". The Star Interview, www.thestar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

  Josiah Strong

  People, World, God's Plan

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target?

  Dennis Miller

  Circles, Target, Hey

  "Fictional character: Dennis Miller Doll". "The Nostalgia Critic/ The First Couple: TMNT", 2010.

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• Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it as its own literary tradition, because your race plays a great factor in how you are seen by the world, and how you see the world; the fact that I'm an Asian American isn't incidental to who I am as a writer. Where it becomes difficult is defining what, if anything identifiable at all, makes an Asian American book an Asian American book, other than the fact of its creator being Asian. And I'd argue that there is nothing identifiable beyond that.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Believe, Book, Mean

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• What if I say that in my view about the least Christian thing you could do is what the Republican party are trying to doing again now, which is try to take charge of the richest country in the world and then deny the people of that country free access to free healthcare and free education and start more wars.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, Country, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, Want, Casting

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.

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• What if reincarnation really happens, and Jesus were reincarnated, & you were a total d*ck to him? It could happen. You should probably treat everyone like they were Jesus reincarnated.

  Ingrid Weir

  Jesus, Reincarnation, Should

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• What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.

  Joyce Johnson

  Boys, Night, Class

  Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

  Daniel Henninger

  May, Internet, Breaking Down

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• First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.

  Kiese Laymon

  Numbers, Literature, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream production? And that would allow us to have characters that represent emotions. And that felt like, man, that's exactly what animation does best - strong, opinionated, caricatured personalities. And that just got me excited.

  Pete Docter

  Dream, Strong, Character

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

  Richard Dormer

  Thinking, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent - in all caps PERMANENT - reduction of their same-sex attraction. How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that's what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent? That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I'm not willing to offer when we're sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.

  Alan Chambers

  Sex, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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