Would Be Quotations | Page 7

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

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.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.

I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.