If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

I would ruin my credibility if I put my stamp of approval of anything I didn't do my due diligence on.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I think it would be interesting to know what it feels like to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

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