Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have...

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn’t get that job unless you were really worth it.

I’m not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it’s something I really need to know.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don’t. They just get what they see, and they take that...

Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

You know very well that unless you’re a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why...

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

Strategic planning is worthless – unless there is first a strategic vision.

Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.

Unless you’re doing Shakespeare or Chekhov… the written word is not sacrosanct.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don’t see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

There’s more of a family connection when you’re working on a TV show. That’s not to say that you don’t make great connections when you’re working on films, but it’s different unless you’re there working...

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

And as a filmmaker, I’m trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don’t believe that.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I’m working with.

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else – I had to be a musician. I can’t commit to anything unless I love it.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

I actually don’t think there is machismo in America, unless it’s the cowboy type – the silent, smoking brooder.

Don’t give advice unless you’re asked.

You never cash out a 401(k) or IRA to pay off debt, unless it’s to avoid a foreclosure or bankruptcy.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

I’m not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

For me it’s the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don’t know what a flute is unless the person plays it...

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn’t go around doing it unless you are in love.

I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

I don’t sit under the tattoo gun unless I’m sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I’m pushed.

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice...

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

We will not know unless we begin.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

You can’t end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can’t begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat...

There’s absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

People don’t walk away from their homes unless they can’t make the payments. That’s an indication that we are in a recession.

Unless you’re a serial killer, you’re worried about being liked by somebody.

I won’t do anything unless it’s the absolute best.

You don’t go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you’re building a golf course.