Would Be Quotes - Page 118

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.

If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.

In another life, I would be your belle

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.