All Quotes

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.
‐‐ Tom Rath

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!
‐‐ Marissa Jaret Winokur

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
‐‐ Roger Vadim

You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.
‐‐ Tina Turner

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw it.
‐‐ John Madden

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
‐‐ Samuel Larsen

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it's different. We are pro-immigrant. That's our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.
‐‐ Jorge Ramos

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.
‐‐ David Boies

You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
‐‐ Yogi Berra

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
‐‐ Sadie Jones

You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get.
‐‐ George Foreman

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
‐‐ Rachael Leigh Cook

You wouldn't run for the United States Senate or for governor or for anything else without answering people's questions about what you believe. And I think the Supreme Court is no different.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
‐‐ Elmer Bernstein

You wouldn't think there was a need for a Coase Theorem, really.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
‐‐ Michael Gove

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
‐‐ Alan Alda

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.
‐‐ Charles Duke

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
‐‐ Richard Dawson

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.
‐‐ Jerry Jones

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.
‐‐ Bill Goldberg

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
‐‐ Anne Enright

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
‐‐ Amy Tan

You write a book, it's out for however many years, and with the passing of time, you're not the same person. I'm not the same person I was when I wrote those books; I'm not even the same person I was when I started writing 'Beg.' I had many shifts spiritually, and one of them was in the use of language.
‐‐ Rory Freedman

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
‐‐ Alan Jay Lerner

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
‐‐ Alan Furst

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
‐‐ Nick Cave

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.
‐‐ Dominick Dunne

You write about what you know.
‐‐ Larry David

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.
‐‐ Philip Roth

You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, 'Why did that last one work?' I think that's the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don't know why things work.
‐‐ Gilbert Morris