Would Be Quotes - Page 160

I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would be unseemly for me to enter in except to suggest that he'd save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day.

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.

I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.

I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

Pressure to me now has become almost part of my life. It doesn't really affect me anymore. People talk about me being under pressure or having pressure of having to come in and be this great player that everyone expects me to be right away. It doesn't really faze me. It's become second nature now. It's almost like it would be weird not to have it.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

My perfect guy right now would be a mannequin - one that comes alive only when I need him to!

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.