All Quotes

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
‐‐ Vladimir Bukovsky

I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence.
‐‐ Muriel Rukeyser

I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'
‐‐ John Updike

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
‐‐ Merton Miller

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
‐‐ Humphrey Bogart

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
‐‐ JR

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.
‐‐ Dorothy Hodgkin

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
‐‐ James Madison

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

I should play more quickly, more attacking.
‐‐ Chen Long

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
‐‐ Pieter Zeeman

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.
‐‐ Birch Bayh

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
‐‐ Joseph Epstein

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
‐‐ Kit Reed

I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!
‐‐ Becca Fitzpatrick

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.
‐‐ Caroline Paul

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.'
‐‐ Lynn Coady

I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
‐‐ Vicente Fox

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.
‐‐ Brian Floca

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
‐‐ Louis Bonaparte

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

I should still be in jail.
‐‐ Amnat Ruenroeng

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
‐‐ Paul Fleischman

I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.
‐‐ Rita Levi-Montalcini

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
‐‐ Brian Lumley

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
‐‐ Robert Mapplethorpe

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

I shouldn't be married.
‐‐ Tippi Hedren

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
‐‐ Malin Akerman

I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.
‐‐ Jessica Brown Findlay

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.
‐‐ Peter Lindbergh

I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

I show people how to build their own immortality device.
‐‐ Alex Chiu

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.
‐‐ Jane Green

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.
‐‐ Richard Simmons