All Quotes

I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.
‐‐ Psy

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.
‐‐ Frank Woolley

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I cannot live alone.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I cannot live anywhere else except India.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
‐‐ Michelangelo

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.
‐‐ Francisco Costa

I cannot live without books.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
‐‐ Mireille Guiliano

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
‐‐ Henri Rousseau

I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted. But these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this.
‐‐ Melania Trump

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
‐‐ Patricia Reilly Giff

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
‐‐ David O. Selznick

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
‐‐ Clay Aiken

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
‐‐ Jacob Epstein

I cannot recall a time that I did not believe in Jesus Christ.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.
‐‐ James McBride

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
‐‐ Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.
‐‐ John Liu

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
‐‐ Richard Branson

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.
‐‐ Kenneth Clarke

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.
‐‐ George Foreman

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.
‐‐ Emma Tennant

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
‐‐ Nathaniel Branden

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
‐‐ Jacques Delors

I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
‐‐ Koichi Tanaka

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
‐‐ Keith Jarrett

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!
‐‐ Reggie Lee

I cannot separate my achievements from what can be considered as the achievements of the ruling party.
‐‐ Meles Zenawi