Might Quotes

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

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.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.