Been Quotes

I feel like I've always been in love with dance. When I was little kid I would always be the one who would be like, okay let's make up some dance routines.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

I remember things the way they should have been.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

I never have been involved in politics.

I've never been a blind romantic.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.