Would Be Quotes - Page 133

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.