Probably Quotes

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

We've probably never met, but I wish we had.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.