Would Be Quotes - Page 221

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect).

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I’m the most off my game most often.

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.