Would Be Quotes

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

I would be heavenly if baby you'd just rescue me now

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

Everybody has secrets and some are deeper and darker than others. I think if we peered within the psyche of another we would be all of those things and so very much more.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator

The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.

My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.

I'll do things that maybe other people would be afraid to do or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships.

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?

I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

What about Sarah Palin. Donald Trump had suggested she would be in his cabinet if he won. Is she going to be in?

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!

Without spring, life would be much less pinky!

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

If I find God's mobile number, I wouldn't call Him, that would be too expensive!