Would Quotes

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

No, I never thought I would like cats.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.