What If Quotes - Page 12

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

When I announced I had cancer on stage, it was my brain leaping to that insane moment of, "There's no way I could start a show saying, 'Hi, I have cancer!'" And also for me to have these scars, and then think, "Oh my gosh, what if I did stand-up and not even acknowledge that my shirt was off, or that I have scars.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous… He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando?

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?

And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?

I like working in series, so instead of just doing one separate body of work, what if I come up with a different rhythm, instead of every week, what if I make it every year? And so I'm still setting up a series, a repetition, but it's a completely different work flow.

Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

What if obese people couldn't get married?

What if I never stop inventing?

But...what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders." Horace and Gilan

What if this present were the world's last night?