Could Quotes

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.