No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

- Charles de Gaulle

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

- Elena Roger

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

- Errol Morris

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

- Douglas Booth

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

- Deepak Chopra

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

- Chingy

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

- Carly Simon

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.

- Chris Milk

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

- Corey Feldman

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

- Anna Held

Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

- Bob Shacochis

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

- Bob Hoskins

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

- Bel Powley

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

- Barbara Jordan

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

- B. F. Skinner

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

- Adnan Pachachi

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

- Albert Murray

For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.

- A. J. Cook

If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point?

- Anouska Hempel