All Quotes

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
‐‐ Chris Martin

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
‐‐ David Hyde Pierce

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!
‐‐ Carson Daly

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
‐‐ Joshua Jackson

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
‐‐ Nigel Kennedy

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!
‐‐ Joe Johnston

Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
‐‐ Bjork

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.
‐‐ Jason Mantzoukas

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
‐‐ Brian Sibley

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
‐‐ James Mercer

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
‐‐ Raul Julia

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.
‐‐ Jane Harman

Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that's an earmark of a fine product. And whenever I have a deep-seated feeling like that, I convey it to the person who made it. Sometimes they curse me, and sometimes they thank me.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
‐‐ John Bolton

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
‐‐ Eriq La Salle

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
‐‐ David Horsey

Maybe it's stupidity, but you just gotta jump into things. That's how I've gone through life.
‐‐ Troy Nixey

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.
‐‐ Rene Russo

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.
‐‐ Allan Guthrie

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Maybe it's the spy novelist in me looking for a future plot, but I hope the U.S. and its allies are thinking how to operate 'unconventionally' in Iraq and Syria in ways that undermine the Islamic State.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.
‐‐ Joel C. Rosenberg

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.
‐‐ David Frum

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.
‐‐ David Ulevitch

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.
‐‐ Jim Parrack

Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the greatest actors in the world, and few people know that.
‐‐ Rob Marshall

Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.
‐‐ Burt Ward

Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.
‐‐ Charles K. Kao

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
‐‐ Jack Bowman

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.
‐‐ Matteo Manassero

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
‐‐ Gary Lucas

Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.
‐‐ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.
‐‐ George Best

Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
‐‐ Alvah Bessie