All Quotes

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.
‐‐ Stockard Channing

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.
‐‐ Shaun White

I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
‐‐ Steve Wilkos

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.
‐‐ Howlin' Wolf

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
‐‐ Dee Dee Ramone

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.
‐‐ Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.
‐‐ Scott McKenzie

I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
‐‐ Bryan Cogman

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!
‐‐ John Caudwell

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
‐‐ Jack Reynor

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
‐‐ Natalie Wood

I couldn't even imagine not being able to take long, hot showers or wear makeup whenever I wanted or shave my underarms. There are certain things people take for granted.
‐‐ Selenis Leyva

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
‐‐ Alastair Reynolds

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.
‐‐ Freddie Prinze

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
‐‐ Tom Jenkinson

I couldn't find anybody who didn't light up when I rang and said I want to talk about Virginia Cherrill. I think she had this absolute purity of spirit.
‐‐ Miranda Seymour

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
‐‐ Zainab Salbi

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
‐‐ Ferdinand Porsche

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I couldn't get along with the French.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
‐‐ Nia Vardalos

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.
‐‐ Chris Squire

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
‐‐ Frances Farmer

I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.
‐‐ Joan Didion

I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the same feeling towards the characters that I do.
‐‐ Michael Hirst

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
‐‐ Christine McVie

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
‐‐ Raf Simons

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

I couldn't have asked for a better kid. She's our own little Buddha baby so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It's like the calm before the storm.
‐‐ Ana Ortiz

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
‐‐ Calvin Klein

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
‐‐ Hope Solo

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.
‐‐ Joel Coen

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.
‐‐ Tom Ford

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
‐‐ Kenny Loggins

I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
‐‐ Susan Kohner

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
‐‐ Mary Schmich

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.
‐‐ Nicole Anderson