Would Be Quotes - Page 64

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Life would be boring without gossip.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

Start looking around you... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.