Could Quotes

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.