Would Be Quotes - Page 46

Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again.

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.