Might Quotes

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

There is a very small chance that you might be really brilliant and really talented.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to.

A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

I try to talk as little as possible, unless I see something that I might disagree with.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.