We Can Quotes

I can't remember, because I never knew.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you.

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.

I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down the floor for hours. I use a magnifying glass to look at the beautiful shape of the thing.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.