Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morton Gould

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

Paul Broun

We should have a very limited federal government.

Paul Ryan

There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records...

Patrick Henry

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?

Jud Wilhite

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

Joseph Pulitzer

Newspapers should have no friends.

Joseph Brodsky

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

Neil Tennant

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

Noam Chomsky

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Mike Myers

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

John Green

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

John Green

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

John Green

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

Marion Barry

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Nick Hornby

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

Nick Hornby

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Matt Damon

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

Oscar Wilde

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Oscar Wilde

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Michael D. Barnes

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

Michael Cunningham

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Michael Ruppert

Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.

Marianne Faithfull

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

Ned Vizzini

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

Naomi Weisstein

The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.

Miyamoto Musashi

You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.

Mitt Romney

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Poppy Montgomery

I should have been a stuntwoman.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

Margaret Thatcher

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

Margaret Cavendish

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

Margaret Cho

I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on their skin. Talk about owning your own body, being in your body, claiming yourself. I love it. When the world is in an uproar over whether women should have a choice or not when it comes to their own bodies, being tattooed is one of the most visible choices of all.

Mark Twain

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.