Would Be Quotes - Page 145

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are maximum aggravating circumstances, which supersede the mitigating circumstances. And there is not a single mitigating circumstance which speaks in favor of the accused, and therefore all the accused deserve (the) death penalty.

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career

Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.

If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all. But if I should lose your love, dear, I don't know what I'd do, For I know I'll never find another you.

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.