Would Be famous quotes
05-13-2025
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
-- A. Alfred Taubman -
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.
-- A. L. Rowse -
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
-- A. S. Byatt -
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
-- Aaron Copland -
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
-- Aaron Copland -
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
-- Aaron Levie -
I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.
-- Aaron Paul -
Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me
-- Abbi Glines -
Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.
-- Abbi Glines -
I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
-- Abdul-Qadir Gilani -
I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .
-- Abdullah Abdullah -
If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
-- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
-- Abigail Breslin -
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
-- Abraham Pais -
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
-- Abu Hanifa -
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
-- Adam Braun -
The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
-- Adam Carolla -
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
-- Adam Clarke -
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
-- Adam Clymer -
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
-- Adam McKay -
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
-- Adam Pally -
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.
-- Adrian Smith -
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
-- Adrienne Bailon -
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.
-- Ai Yazawa -
We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.
-- Al Davis -
We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.
-- Al Franken -
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
-- Al Pacino -
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
-- Al Pacino -
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.
-- Alain de Botton -
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
-- Alan Bennett -
In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.
-- Alan Blinder -
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
-- Alan Bradley -
Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
-- Alan Colmes -
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
-- Alan Cooper -
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
-- Alan Kay -
The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
-- Alan Rickman -
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
-- Alan Shepard -
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.
-- Alan Thicke -
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
-- Alan Turing -
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.
-- Alana Beard -
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.
-- Albert A. Michelson -
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.
-- Albert Bandura -
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
-- Albert Brooks -
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
-- Albert Camus -
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
-- Albert Camus -
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
-- Albert Camus -
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
-- Albert Camus -
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
-- Albert Camus -
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
-- Albert Camus -
If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
-- Albert Camus -
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
-- Albert Einstein -
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
-- Albrecht Durer -
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
-- Aldous Huxley -
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
-- Alec Baldwin -
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
-- Alex Campbell -
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
-- Alex Ferguson -
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
-- Alex Flinn -
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
-- Alex Lifeson -
It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.
-- Alexa Chung -
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.
-- Alexander Grothendieck -
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.
-- Alexander Lowen -
There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
-- Alexander the Great -
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
-- Alexander Theroux -
Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.
-- Alexander Wang -
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes,
-- Alexander Wang -
I honestly can’t tell you. We’ve never had a situation like this before, “I admitted. “So you being an angel doesn’t meam…†He hesitated. “Doesn’t mean I have an answer for everything,†I concluded for him. “I just assumed it would be one of the perks.†“Sadly, no.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
-- Alexandra Paul -
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
-- Alexandra Ripley
