Would Be Quotes - Page 45

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.

I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be made into strawberry flavoered chocolate covered fudge, they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world!" No, I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Can you imagine Augustus flavored chocolate covered gloop? Ew. No one would buy it.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf