Might Quotes

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

Another occupation might have been better.

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.