Would Be Quotations | Page 3

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?'

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.