Might Quotes

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

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.