Could Quotes

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It's really frustrating whenever I can't go and do something because I know it's going to be on the internet.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.