Would Be Quotes

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.

I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.

Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Being a heart throb would be crazy.

I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

I mean, I'd like to see (Mitt Romney's) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool - the Mormon fire patrol.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.