Would be Quotes · Page 119

If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid…

— Stephen Colbert

I think one reason I could be a good playboy is I would be willing to spend the time required to really…

— Jack Handey

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

— Jim Nussle

If I had a dream show, I probably shouldn't even mention it in this climate, but it would be like a kind…

— Amanda Holden

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

— Barry Goldwater

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

— Jean de la Bruyere

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do…

— Camille Henrot

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake…

— Charlotte Bronte

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into…

— Laura Bush

I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines…

— Diego Corrales

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and…

— Christine Lakin

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would…

— Lloyd Alexander

I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal…

— Boris Johnson

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball…

— Ernie Harwell

Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy.…

— Juan Manuel Santos

I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into…

— Janet Evanovich

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others;…

— Witold Gombrowicz

From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from…

— Douglas Adams

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very…

— Anonymous

I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to…

— Diana Gabaldon

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation.…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low…

— Winona Ryder

It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David,…

— Eric Ludy

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

— Charles Fried

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the…

— Peggy Guggenheim

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the…

— Daniel Kahneman

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.

— Nora Roberts

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

— Daniel Kahneman

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

— Bruce Campbell

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic…

— Harold Laski

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

— Bill Keller

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one…

— Robert Jordan

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

— David Brooks

Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be…

— John Mayer

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

— Erykah Badu

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place -…

— Annabelle Selldorf

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I…

— Beverly Cleary

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would…

— Brett Favre