Probably Quotes

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.