Could Quotes

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.