All Quotes

I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
‐‐ Harvey Cushing

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
‐‐ Robert Englund

I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.
‐‐ Ben Quayle

I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.
‐‐ Alex D. Linz

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
‐‐ Gabriela Isler

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'
‐‐ Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sit down with Oprah, just because I'd like to talk to her. I want to sit down and, like, converse. Like, 'Honey, let's chat!'
‐‐ Ross Mathews

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
‐‐ Mathieu Kerekou

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.
‐‐ Kevin Johnson

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

I would like to speak 10 languages.
‐‐ Leon Redbone

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
‐‐ Mallory Jansen

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.
‐‐ Helen Vendler

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
‐‐ Major Owens

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
‐‐ Boris Yeltsin

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.
‐‐ Alain Juppe

I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller.
‐‐ Mike McCaul

I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
‐‐ Bjork

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.
‐‐ Dominique de Villepin

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.
‐‐ Hosni Mubarak

I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.
‐‐ Monica Seles

I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!
‐‐ Andriy Shevchenko

I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
‐‐ Victor Ponta

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.
‐‐ Muhammadu Buhari

I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.
‐‐ Kim Collins

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.
‐‐ Nicos Anastasiades

I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.
‐‐ Rainey Qualley

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
‐‐ Bill Mauldin

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
‐‐ Nick Faldo

I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.
‐‐ James Dobson

I would like to thank Wolfgang Schreiber for his successful work with Bentley and Bugatti and the consistent further development of the two brands.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
‐‐ Margaret Keane

I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.
‐‐ Jessie Ware

I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
‐‐ Terry McMillan

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.
‐‐ David Souter

I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

I would like to think that I'm always honest with myself and others. I guess that's what makes me a half-decent actor.
‐‐ Alfie Allen

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.
‐‐ Sarah Chalke

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.
‐‐ Michael Owen

I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed, you actually get to keep that promise; you get to keep that commitment. I think that once you start to lose that, once you start to wonder, even emotionally - especially emotionally - your relationship is bound to get lost.
‐‐ Jonathan Silverman

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
‐‐ Robert Wyatt