Would Be Quotes

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that?

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.

Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.

I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and does little circus acts as well. Oh, he's so sexy.

I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up.

Honestly, I didn't think that I would be recognized so easily.

Peter [Facinelli] would be so good at doing that. I want him to do the Beyoncé biopic.

If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

If you would be pungent, be brief.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?