Famous Quotes & Sayings

Itzhak Perlman

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

Ishmael Reed

I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.

Iris Murdoch

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Giorgio Armani

It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way.

J. K. Rowling

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

J. K. Rowling

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

Nicole Williams

My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.

Matt Busby

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

Nicholas Stern

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

Mitch Hedberg

That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me.

Jim Broadbent

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

James Hetfield

If everyone was the same, it would be boring as sh*t

James Ellroy

I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.

Kip Moore

Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

Margaret Atwood

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

Margaret Atwood

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Mara Liasson

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

Kiefer Sutherland

There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

George Herbert

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

Harry Shearer

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

Naomi Watts

If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.

R. C. Sproul

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

R. C. Sproul

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

Portia de Rossi

I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

Jean Rhys

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

Ian Somerhalder

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Ian Somerhalder

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

Sharron Angle

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.