Been Quotes

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

We might have been a free and great people together.

But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.

I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.

It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

When your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.

Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention

Things are not always what they seem

An unknown road will always lead somewhere where you haven't been before.

I call her Google because she got everything I have been searching for.

I call her Google, Because she got everything I'm searching for

The most beautiful eyes haven’t been seen yet

You are what you think

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.