All Quotes

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
‐‐ Russell Brand

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.
‐‐ Kenneth Kaunda

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
‐‐ Christopher Darden

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
‐‐ Garth Brooks

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
‐‐ Anita Hill

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
‐‐ Mary Pickford

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
‐‐ Robert Coppola Schwartzman

It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!
‐‐ Andra Day

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
‐‐ Malcolm Cowley

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.
‐‐ Suzy Amis

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
‐‐ Jon McGregor

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.
‐‐ Julie Brown

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
‐‐ Garth Ennis

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
‐‐ James Marsters

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
‐‐ Joey Skaggs

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.
‐‐ Franz Beckenbauer

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
‐‐ Jimmy Carl Black

It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.
‐‐ Leon Day

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.
‐‐ Carla Bruni

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
‐‐ Prince Andrew

It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
‐‐ Vance Havner

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
‐‐ Paul Harris

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

It would probably help my career if I lived in L.A., but I think it would be all-consuming. New York has its own little rat race going on, too. But it's also really diverse and has a lot of people doing different kinds of jobs. In L.A., work would be the only thing I'd think about, and sometimes, I need a break from that.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
‐‐ David Harsanyi

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
‐‐ Sean Bean

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
‐‐ Ben E. King

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.
‐‐ James Hogg

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
‐‐ James L. Buckley

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
‐‐ Clifford D. Simak

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
‐‐ Rusty Schweickart

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
‐‐ Elon Musk

It would take wild horses to get me to talk.
‐‐ Gene Scott