If I Could Quotes

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

If I could have a superpower, I would choose the ability to make people's heart stop, if I just point at them.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

If I could choose, I would say [I would like to be filming with] Natalie Portman and Leonardo DiCaprio.

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.

It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.

If i could be a superhero, i would be Superman. He can fly, he is strong... even though i'm not that strong

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.