“If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!” IfsShouldWritingFactsBigsWantedNovelGoneHints Author:Charles Stross
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?” IfsWantGivingFeelsShouldYearsTwoBigsHateThreeEnergySexGonePlansMinutesLove YouBrotherBearsDown AndExcitedDamnCheerThree YearsFlagsBloodyMaking LoveUp And DownSourBurstingDon't Give A Damn Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.” ThinkingShouldLongMomentsLastsArtistLosesSituationGonePeriodsSongwritersYour MomMojo Author:Jimmy Cliff
“Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldHumansRealizingAudienceKnow HowGoneStudyImagineBandYeahWarmAidsAll TimeQueensIntimateBarriersControlledImagine ThatVocalStadiumsStood UpMercury Author:Dave Grohl
“With my personality, I generally don't like change a lot. I reflect back on things quicker than I should at times. So it seems like it's gone by really quick. The older you get, the faster it seems to go by.” ShouldSeemsGonePersonalityFaster Author:Matt Kenseth
“One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."” ShouldDoneBeliefLeftBehindsGoneKeysBuyingKey To SuccessLeft BehindProceduresPremisesNaysayers Book:Satan Speaks! Source: Satan Speaks!
“Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.” IfsShouldBookLastsGoneRichComputerSmellTextureTangibleSmellyKnowledge Gained Author:Rupert Giles
“Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?” ShouldEarthGoneDiversityFiniteExpanding Author:Donella Meadows
“Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.” WayShouldAbleVoiceSilenceMorningGoneGoes OnWalkingEssenceEnjoyedFreakJarsElbows Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition) Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.” ShouldFirstsHas BeensMadeTwoMistakeGoneCoupleShould HaveAlbumsRehabVictoria Author:Robbie Williams
“There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again...but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.” ThinkingWorldNeedsShouldWholeHelpingBornGoneDeserveWhole LifeDestroyedShould IBorn Again Author:Marilyn Manson
“One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.” WorldGivingShouldLyingVisionGonePlanetsActivityGods WillProphetPlasticPreacherBiblicalHere And NowSpoonsDemonstratingHarlem Author:Philip Yancey
“The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.” ShouldLittlesHomeNightLaughingSunGoneStupidJokesShould HaveShining Author:Sy Safransky
“After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!” ShouldMomentsShowsLaughingGoneShould HaveGuitarAlbumsPocketsThat MomentEd Sullivan Author:George Thorogood
“Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.” IfsShouldHappensViewsCitiesCasesGoneStreetsCrimeFiguresCamerasGood ThingsVery GoodLondonTerroristPettyInner CityPersonal Views Author:Bill Gates
“Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.” ShouldYearsEndsStarsForgetWonderGoneOur LivesGloryLaughterWineEmbraceGrantedEncountersSunsetSuspectsCasualLove And FriendshipFood LoveFireplaces Author:Jack McDevitt
“I talked to Larry the Cable Guy the other day. Larry's made more money than 10 people should ever make in a lifetime. He was excited because he'd gone over to the livestock auction and bought 20 new feeder pigs.” PeopleShouldMadeGuyGoneLifetimeExcitedMore MoneyPigsCablesLarryAuctionsLivestock Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Why should we believe people who constantly try to push these trade agreements and won't even admit when one has gone wrong? It makes working people feel like the process is rigged. The reason is, it is rigged.” PeopleFeelsShouldTryingBelieveReasonProcessGoneTradeAgreementRiggedTrade Agreements Author:Russ Feingold
“You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.” KnowsShouldImportantSchoolGamesNamesGonePursuitPursueGradGrad SchoolTrivial Things Author:Christian Finnegan
“The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.” IfsKnowsWayShouldBelieveWarKnow HowGonePolicyInvolvedWeaponsMassPicksDestructionDon't BelieveCivil WarForeign PolicySaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:John Kasich
“In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayCountryAmericaChoicesNationsWishPresidentGoneGreaterRiskCriticsArroganceArrogantOther CountriesPresident BushVirusesUnfree Author:Cal Thomas
“'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.” ThinkingShouldFirstsBigsGoneHappenedShould HaveSellsRewardsFinanceBrandsCorporateSurvivorMacsSponsorsCoca ColaBig Mac Author:Mark Burnett
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina
“We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.” ThinkingShouldIdeasShowsFallGoneBirthLosingRateTraditionalJapanStoppingUrgencyVergeSense Of UrgencyBirth RateDays Gone By Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.” WorldShouldStatesDoneLawNationsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesGoneEventsTerribleLateResponseInternationalToo LateUnited NationsInternational LawTerrible Events Author:Edward Said
“I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.” ThinkingWorldShouldTryingEnoughPhilosophyFactsGoneHavensSourceConnectionsScientistCognitiveCognitive Science Author:L.A. Paul