Could Quotes

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.