All Quotes

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.
‐‐ Ellen Hopkins

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
‐‐ Mark Goddard

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.
‐‐ Peter Hargreaves

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
‐‐ David Bowie

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
‐‐ Julian Castro

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.
‐‐ Nicholas Brendon

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
‐‐ Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
‐‐ Candice Bergen

I couldn't hope to be in anything better than 'Misfits.' The reaction from fans has been mental. The weirdest thing is when people tell me I'm their inspiration. I can't believe I get fan mail, and loads of free clothes. Adidas sent me lots of stuff; it's wicked!
‐‐ Lauren Socha

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
‐‐ Amanda Burton

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.
‐‐ Lindsay Davenport

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.
‐‐ Rosie O'Donnell

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
‐‐ Naima Adedapo

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.
‐‐ Pete Postlethwaite

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
‐‐ Treat Williams

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.
‐‐ Chris Tucker

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
‐‐ Ariel Pink

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.
‐‐ Nicole Ari Parker

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
‐‐ Ron Reagan

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.
‐‐ Estelle

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
‐‐ Ellen Burstyn

I couldn't kill a fly.
‐‐ Vera Miles

I couldn't knock on people's door; if they answered the door and said, 'I don't want to speak to you,' I'd be like, 'Oh, OK then - I wouldn't either, to be honest.'
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.
‐‐ Dave Pelzer

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.
‐‐ Betsey Johnson

I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not?
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
‐‐ Imelda May

I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
‐‐ Ursula Andress

I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.
‐‐ Rob Thomas

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
‐‐ Yves Saint Laurent

I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.
‐‐ Anna Nicole Smith

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.
‐‐ Jimmy Nail

I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
‐‐ Morgan Spurlock

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.
‐‐ Lee Pearson

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
‐‐ Don McCullin