Would Be Quotes - Page 122

I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting.

If Donald Trump were elected, it would be the first time a little boy became president.

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.

I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.