I Quotes
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“I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.”
“I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.”
“I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.”
“I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.”
Source: The Midnight Palace
“I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.”
“I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.”
“I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.”
“I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.”
“I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.”
“I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.”
“I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.”
“I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.”
“I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.”
“I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.”
“I would have rather felt you round my throat,
Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!”
Source: Indian Love Lyrics
“I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy.”
Source: The Compound
“I would have rather the world ended than this, this thing he had done and this emptiness where he was, where we were-”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.”
“I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“I would have said that during the early days of my life there was never a moment when I wasn't fit. We worked extremely hard on the beekeeping line, and both my brother and I used to compete, particularly when we were collecting honey. We would each have an 80-pound box of honey and we would race up the hill on the Tuakau track and race back down. We just raced all the time, and we used to keep very fit indeed.”
“I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.”
“I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion, a woman can feel towards a man who lacks a motive. Who has only friendship to offer and offers that so easily and bountifully that even if it is rejected he can move along as buoyantly as ever. Here was no solitary fellow hoping to hook up with a girl. Even I could see that, inexperienced as I was. Just a person who took comfort in the moment and in a sort of reasonable façade of life.”
Source: Queenie: A Story
“I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.”
“I would have shared with the banks my long-term vision and got them involved instead of just going to them when I needed money. I should have got them on my team right from the start.”
“I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.”
“I would have skipped the following day if I could have. I ddin't even like Disney World. I was, in fact, slightly afraid of it. When Khrushchev visited Disneyland in 1959, he wasn't allowed in. It was said that the American authorities couldn't guarantee his safety inside. And whatever else Khrushchev was, I would have backed him against an infantry division.”
Source: Crooked
“I would have so loved to learn about the Vikings.”
Lillian snorted. “Since when have you been interested in warlike pagans with silly-looking headgear?”
Daisy looked up from her book again. “Are we talking about Grandmother again?”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.”
Source: Packing for Mars
“I would have soothed-I would have reasoned; but, in the intensity of her wild desire for life,-for life-but for life-solace and reason were the uttermost folly.”
Source: Ligeia
“I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.”
“I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier”
“I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].”
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.”
“I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.”
“I would have stayed in 1996 if I could have, but it wasn’t my choice, so now I have to move either forward or back—it’s up to me. Not changing isn’t an option. And even though I’ve changed in so many ways—I’m a different person with a different life—the past is still me every minute.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the lumber room down the hallway, and I heard thumps and a crash.
I raised my voice a trifle more than mere volume required. "I'm interested because she was. Both of them, come to that--Damian's art is infused with mystic symbols and traditions."
Holmes' voice answered two inches away from my ear, making me jerk and spray a handful of maps across the floor. "Religion can be a dangerous thing, it is true," he remarked darkly, and went out again.”
Source: The Language of Bees
“I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.”
“I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.”
“I would have sworn that the leap was going to end in disaster. I had applied the rubrics of fear and tediously calculated the nature of the risk, thereby adamantly determining it to be impossible. Yet, high in the lofty branches of the towering maple tree the squirrel leapt, and in doing so made it look effortless. And I thought, “How many times have I applied the rubrics of fear, overestimated the leap, and have therefore chosen to exist in a forest of one tree?” Therefore, my commitment in the coming year is to live in a forest of many trees.”
“I would have sworn that the leap was going to end in disaster. Yet, the squirrel made it look effortless. And I thought, “How many times have I overestimated the leap and have therefore chosen to exist in a forest of one tree?”
“I would have taken a bullet for you.
It just never crossed my mind that you would be the one to shoot.”
Source: At 23
“I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.”
“I would have taken things in my own hands, but I was at the manicure's.”
Source: The New Land
“I would have taken Zeb, purely for entertainment value, but he had an actual date, with a real girl. That hadn't happened in a while, so I was a good friend and put my own needs second to the possibility of him actual sex with a real girl.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“I would have taught her a lesson she wouldn't forget!”
“I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.”
“I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.”
“I would have thanked you for being ingenuous, even though, like Hamlet, you had spoke daggers.”
Source: Memoirs of Emma Courtney