Would Be Quotes

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

You would make a very ugly woman" "I would not. I would be stunning

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

I've got one Aussie flag on my car. It would be nice to have two.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.

There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require disipline and intention.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

I guess I'm fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize 'I guess', because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.