Would Be Quotes - Page 110

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.

If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.