Would Be Quotes

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.

I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.