Would Be Quotes

There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

If i could be a superhero, i would be Superman. He can fly, he is strong... even though i'm not that strong

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

I guess I would be most grateful for my family and my friends and my dogs, my boyfriend. I'm grateful for a lot. I'm grateful to be healthy.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to room. And maybe the entrance would be the mouth of a whale.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

My old trainer used to tell us not to blast, but to caress the ball whenever we took possession. If the ball were a woman... she would be spending all night with Berbatov.

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.

We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

I think if I had been a man, I would be richer. That hurts. But at the same time, I have to keep fighting and not think too much about "what if," because that doesn't lead you anywhere.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. “Why?” he said to his lover. “Because I want you for however long I have you.

If in winning we only draw we would be fine.

I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'

If love was easy, there would be almost no music.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.