I Could Quotes

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great.

I could have been a great many things.

If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.