Has Beens Quotes

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?"

Not everything in my life has been pretty.

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

Nothing has been given to me.

When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

I have been despised by better men than you.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

It's more like it is now than it ever has been.

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

History has been the history of warfare.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.