Could Quotes

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.