Would Be Quotes

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

I never thought I would be impeached.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

At some point in my life I would like to win a Grammy. I think that would be a good thing to do.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

I'm a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court. If I were to tell you everything I do, you would be like, "Do you really play tennis?"

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.