Might Quotes · Page 663

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they…

— Ann Richards

People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above…

— Haruki Murakami

The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of…

— Kevin Myers

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

— Ben Kingsley

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,…

— Tom Stoppard

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying,…

— Nora Ephron

There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed…

— Isaac Hayes

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.

— Tom DeLonge

On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might…

— Simon Cowell

I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the…

— James Taylor

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

— Waylon Jennings

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you…

— Brian Lamb

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

— Ann Jillian

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for…

— Patti Smith

When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up…

— Lynne Ramsay

People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house…

— Frederick Stanley Maude

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

— Criss Jami

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

— Jonathan Lynn

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any…

— David Starkey

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the…

— John McGinnis

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

— Dean Koontz

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just…

— Ethan Coen