Might Quotes - Page 120

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.

Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.