All Quotes

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.
‐‐ Rocco Buttiglione

I can throw out any man alive.
‐‐ Johnny Bench

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
‐‐ Andrew Scott

I can touch my eyebrows with my nose. Look at that! That's not normal. I shouldn't be able to do that.
‐‐ Josh Thomas

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
‐‐ Valeria Golino

I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.
‐‐ Stephanie Klein

I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.
‐‐ Kristin Kreuk

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
‐‐ Bahman Ghobadi

I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
‐‐ Tammy Faye Bakker

I can try to convince somebody else of my beliefs, but I should not be imposing.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.
‐‐ Sofia Vergara

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.
‐‐ Courtney Love

I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
‐‐ Lajos Kossuth

I can understand companionship.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
‐‐ Kajol

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
‐‐ Piper Perabo

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.
‐‐ Guy Ritchie

I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
‐‐ Alberto Manguel

I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
‐‐ Ferdinand Marcos

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.
‐‐ Jessie Cave

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
‐‐ Joe Torre

I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
‐‐ Garth Nix

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
‐‐ Chris Columbus

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?
‐‐ Emily Blunt

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.
‐‐ Rooney Mara

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
‐‐ Bill Gates

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
‐‐ Alice Dellal

I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.
‐‐ Dan Benishek

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.
‐‐ Julie Walters

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.
‐‐ Ken Burns

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.
‐‐ Nik Kershaw

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
‐‐ Nigella Lawson

I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
‐‐ Rand Paul

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.
‐‐ John Woo

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
‐‐ Kathryn Schulz