Would Quotes

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.