Top 100 But Maybe Quotes
#1. So do you have a kilt?" Megan asked him. When I glared at her, she said, "What? He only said you couldn't ask." She looked at him. "So do you?"
Straightening up, Zachary rubbed the back of his neck and smirked. "I might, I might."
God, he was gorgeous. And Scottish. But maybe kind of an ass.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#2. I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.
Beyonce Knowles
#3. I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would!
Zach Condon
#4. The sound did not hide the void, but it filled it with a kind of light: nothing that would stop you from falling, but maybe stop you from being so afraid.
Padma Viswanathan
#5. But maybe because sometimes a girl just really needs to snap at someone who she knows will forgive her later.
Ally Carter
#6. I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.
Josh Pais
#7. I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.
James Hillman
#8. I've got a bunch of circuit-bent boxes and things that are controlled by my Mac through a big breakout box. I want to create this total environment where I can bring all this gear to the show but maybe just use one or two elements, if that's what's called for.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#9. I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.
Marilyn Manson
#10. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives
#11. I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.
Amy Bloom
#12. You think about me ever?" Ben's eyes were intent on Maddox. All the time. Even when I knew I shouldn't. The confession died in his throat, but maybe Ben could see it in his eyes because Ben gave a sly smile. "I've thought about you." "Yeah?" Maddox's voice was hoarse, eyes riveted to Ben's. "Sucking
Annabeth Albert
#13. Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.
Katja Millay
#14. And I know that your childhood wasn't all that great-that you felt a lot of pain,and that you are in a lot of pain right now. But maybe you have to go through all that so you'll learn just how important having a happy childhood can be, so you will provide one for our daughter.
Matthew Quick
#16. My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff.
George R R Martin
#17. When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#18. Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too - everyone says so - but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be, you know.
Stephen King
#19. We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.
Hod Lipson
#20. The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#21. Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.
Michael Pena
#22. Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
Gay Talese
#23. I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. People talk to dogs. Not that they understand. But maybe they understand enough.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.
Holland Taylor
#26. It's all right," he says. "But maybe - you could - " He looks into my eyes, deep, and I know what he wants. A kiss.
Ally Condie
#27. Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
Mark Epstein
#28. It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
Candace Bushnell
#29. She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.
Markus Zusak
#30. But maybe, she told herself, the squirrels had felt themselves falling and leaped to safety. The key was to know when you were falling.
Tom Franklin
#31. Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself.
Bryant McGill
#32. But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Haruki Murakami
#33. A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
Sarah Dessen
#34. I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you are dropping something so you turn around and check the ground and shit but nothing, but maybe something, but always maybe something.
Sam Pink
#35. I'll bet they think they can leave you alone because you've really got it together.
But maybe sometimes you don't really have it together.
Haruki Murakami
#36. How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.
John Grisham
#37. I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
Zoey Deutch
#38. So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.
Jenny McCarthy
#39. I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
Linus Torvalds
#40. Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.
Atul Gawande
#41. To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.
Bruce Springsteen
#42. Sometime whispering's okay but maybe you'd feel better if you screamed today.
Kimya Dawson
#43. There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.
Amy Harmon
#44. I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.
Zachary Levi
#45. We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.
Meg Wolitzer
#46. I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.
Randy Newman
#47. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.
Joseph Fink
#48. Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.
But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces.
I can't swallow because I have that kind.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#49. Oh I don't know,' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey
Anthony McDonald
#50. Thirty years - almost all of them really happy. That's a lifetime, it's incredible. Most people don't get that. But maybe this is just over, you know? Maybe it's over...
Zadie Smith
#51. But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.
Tom Dolby
#52. But maybe there isn't a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn't always such a good word.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#53. Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.
Sanjay Kumar
#54. I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#55. I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.
Richie Allen
#56. They say we're too young to love, but maybe they're just too old to remember..
Wiz Khalifa
#58. I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.
David Walliams
#59. I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.
Douglas Booth
#60. Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#61. I'm made mute by the virtue of decision
And I choose most of your life goes on without me
Oh the fear I've known
That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own
All I've sown was a song
But maybe I was wrong
Emily Saliers
#62. But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.
Veronica Roth
#63. You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
Viggo Mortensen
#64. You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.
Helen Oyeyemi
#65. Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.
David Letterman
#66. I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.
Joelle Carter
#67. People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Meryl Streep
#68. I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.
Anna Karina
#69. Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.
Andre Agassi
#70. But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
Susan Fletcher
#71. You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
Barbara Corcoran
#72. I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#73. I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.
Sophie Thompson
#74. I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.
Allen West
#75. I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.
Sophia Dembling
#76. Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.
Seth Greenland
#77. Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.
James Patterson
#78. I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.
Antonya Nelson
#79. She'd die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.
Lisa Kessler
#80. I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.
Sue Wicks
#81. It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.
Susan Wiggs
#82. Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#83. I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#84. He was a dork, a dink, a dong ... Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe it was an affront that any other man had one. That must be the truth.
Margaret Atwood
#85. But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don't appear at the time as knowledge at all
Meg Wolitzer
#86. Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.
Jesse Eisenberg
#87. I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
Maria Bartiromo
#88. I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that ... But it's what I meant.
Mary Eva Swatek
#89. I like to think I'm the kind of girl who'll drink anything," I said, " but maybe not from a shoe.
Paula McLain
#90. People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.
Julie Johnson
#91. But maybe a broken heart seemed a simple price to pay, the way that all costs that must be settled in the future appear, until they suddenly come due.
Alice Hoffman
#92. Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
Ben Affleck
#93. I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
Natalie Portman
#94. They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that.
But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.
Cassandra Clare
#95. Maybe the story of our life is what we make of it. I mean, we're dealt the rain and the sun, but maybe it's up to us to push away the clouds in order to see the rainbow.
Laura Miller
#96. Of course I realized that the Protestants denominations of the world have grown and matured over the years, but maybe we should not throw away the gains of the old Protestants that brought us to our modern day civilization.
Sunday Adelaja
#97. I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
Loretta Lynn
#98. I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.
Rashida Jones
#99. There's no question that the Republic has done some horrible things to us all, that they might still be doing those things. But ... maybe I've also been seeing the things I want to see. Maybe now that the old elector is gone, the Republic's soldiers have started to shed their masks too.
Marie Lu
#100. Just like in any relationship, things changed. We changed. We both made mistakes and we both learned a lot. We may love each other differently, but maybe that is a good thing. Maybe it is more forgiving and more mature, or maybe it is just different.
Chris Kyle
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