Would Be Quotes - Page 58

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

If it's a good romantic movie like The Notebook or...The Longest Ride . No, I don't know. I thought it would be great to work on one of those genres and we made a pretty darn good version of one of those. There are some that come off as sort of cheesy, but this one was pretty good.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?" Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.