All Quotes

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'
‐‐ Gene Siskel

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
‐‐ Steve McQueen

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.
‐‐ Sandy Duncan

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
‐‐ Frederick Marryat

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I would read all day if I could.
‐‐ Quvenzhane Wallis

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
‐‐ Dean Ween

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
‐‐ Ken Jennings

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
‐‐ Regina Spektor

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
‐‐ Marian McPartland

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
‐‐ Fred Armisen

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I've spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
‐‐ Tania Raymonde

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
‐‐ Jilly Cooper

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
‐‐ Billie Piper

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.
‐‐ Pixie Lott

I would really love to sit with Kathryn Hepburn because I find her so interesting.
‐‐ Cobie Smulders

I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
‐‐ Tina Weymouth

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
‐‐ Britney Spears

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.
‐‐ Eric Heiden

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
‐‐ Lydia Davis

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
‐‐ Valerie Azlynn

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.
‐‐ Tom Wilkinson

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
‐‐ David Walliams

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
‐‐ Anne McCaffrey

I would recommend to someone that has the money to experience the experience of giving to another and purchasing me a Veyron. A Bugatti Veyron. That will really make you want to give to your fellow man.
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
‐‐ Cass Sunstein

I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
‐‐ Barry Goldwater

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
‐‐ Rowan Atkinson

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
‐‐ Jay-Z

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.
‐‐ Graham Roberts

I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
‐‐ Adrian Peterson

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
‐‐ Thomas Haden Church

I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn