Would Quotes

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.