Has Beens Quotes

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

My entire life has been a lie.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

Progress has been much more general than retrogression

Gareth Jellyman of Mansfield Town has been sent off, hope he doesn't throw a wobbly!

My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.