All Quotes

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.
‐‐ David Coverdale

I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.
‐‐ Hilda Solis

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
‐‐ Nora Roberts

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
‐‐ Adam Rapp

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.
‐‐ Ben Quayle

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan

I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.
‐‐ John Elway

I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
‐‐ John Hall

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
‐‐ Judith Krantz

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
‐‐ Richard Wright

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
‐‐ Bernard Berenson

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.
‐‐ Michael Baumgartner

I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.
‐‐ Jim Bankoff

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
‐‐ Andrae Crouch

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
‐‐ David Chase

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.
‐‐ Henry Thomas

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.
‐‐ Johnny Marr

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.
‐‐ Alyson Hannigan

I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
‐‐ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
‐‐ James Murdoch

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.
‐‐ Melanie Griffith

I would just like to be known as my own person. I don't need to ride on any coattails. I just want to make my mark myself.
‐‐ Ali Lohan

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
‐‐ Lesley Garrett

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
‐‐ Dimebag Darrell

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.
‐‐ Michelle Kwan

I would just love to do 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I think that movie is fantastic.
‐‐ Tim DeKay

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.
‐‐ Christina Milian

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.
‐‐ Paul Watson

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
‐‐ Stephen Sprouse

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.
‐‐ Tommy Tune

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
‐‐ Nickolas Ashford

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.
‐‐ Jean Craighead George