#what if

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#might #revealing #still #too #what if

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not? ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#assume #back #could #feeling #having

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#beloved #companies #continue #embassy #exist

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? ↗

— Matt Stone

#goofy #inspire #make #nice #people

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#away #carried #get #left #suddenly

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?' ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #back #been #comedians #comedy

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be? ↗

— Nido Qubein

#anybody #anything #choose #chose #could

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. ↗

— James Rollins

#articles #discover #geographic #head #i

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing. ↗

— Jean Gabin

#much #should #singing #song #speak