Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rothfuss

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

Padma Lakshmi

DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.

Les Aspin

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

Lauren Oliver

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

Patti Davis

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

Ilka Chase

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Igor Stravinsky

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Igor Stravinsky

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Idries Shah

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Geraldine Ferraro

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

Harry S Truman

The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

Rand Paul

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

Shane Leslie

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Michelle Obama

Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves,

Michelle Obama

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

Shiv Khera

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

Tom Colicchio

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

John Owen

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

Mitch Albom

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

Miguel de Cervantes

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Miguel de Cervantes

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

John Waters

I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning; she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron)

Nina Jacobson

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

Nicolas Chamfort

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Norah Jones

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

Nora Roberts

If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—” “Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.