Would Be Quotations

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

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

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

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

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

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

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.