Have Been Quotes

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

General Mike Flynn obviously was dealing with Russia. So that's one person. But he was dealing, as he should have been.

I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

God, I wish you could have been there.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.