I Quotes
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“I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.”
“I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.”
“I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.”
“I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.”
“I could make love with you until the mood decides to never glow again.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“I could make love with you until the moon decides to never glow again.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.”
“I could make you read the entire quadrant exposition again...BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK.”
“I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it?”
“I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.”
“I could meet every soul in the world, and you would still be my favourite.”
Source: The Rose and the Thorn
“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”
Source: The ragamuffin Gospel
“I could mount you until I die.”
Source: Tiger
“I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.”
“I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.”
“I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.”
“I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.”
“I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.”
“I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.”
“I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”
“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.”
“I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.”
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”
“I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.”
“I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.”
“I could never be a husband to Maria," he whispered, gazing up at the stars. "There'd always be that memory. It could never be the same as it was with
Marybeth." He closed his eyes briefly when the painful recollections became stronger. Billy Marsh would have been about the same age as little Carlos now if he had lived... if those goddamn Yankees hadn't burned Galveston to the ground.
Later, he uncorked the whiskey again and drank deeply. As the roan crossed a starlit ridge, he heard a coyote howl on a slope high above the trail. The sound made him think about how much he had become like the coyote, living out a solitary existence away from everyone else, seeking a mate who could not answer his lonesome call.
He drank until the bottle was empty, climbing the silent Sangres with a similarly empty heart.”
Source: Santa Fe Showdown
“I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor.”
“I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.”
“I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.”
“I could never be a politician, I have a problem of too often being honest.”
“I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.”
“I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.”
“I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.”
“I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.”
“I could never be afraid of you.”
“I could never be bored, I thought, if he was nearby. It was the stage of love, where even the most mundane activity seemed like an adventure.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies.”
“I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.”
Source: My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915
“I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.”
Source: Diary of a Mad Diva
“I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.”
“I could never be James Bond.”
“I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.”
“I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.”
“I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.”
“I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.”
Source: Last Operas and Plays
“I could never be so lucky again”
“I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.”
“I could never be you."
"Of course not. You're you and that's who you're meant to be.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door