Top 100 Could You Quotes
#1. Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?
Lorrie Moore
#2. How could you hear that? I was whispering!" "Sweetheart," Kat says, saluting me with a glass, "you must have learned to whisper while riding in a helicopter in the middle of a hurricane." "Are
Kristen Proby
#3. Could you actually remember pain? He didn't think so. You knew there was such a thing, and that you had suffered it, but that wasn't the same.
Stephen King
#4. How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
Gloria Steinem
#5. How was he meant to find the Antichrist? Just walk down the street and say 'Hello. Excuse me, but could you please point me in the direction of the son of the Devil? I want to kill him.' It all seemed rather far-fetched.
Phillip W. Simpson
#6. How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
Sky Ferreira
#7. What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?
Justice Mandhla
#8. - But what could you possibly see in her?
- Everything, I see everything in her, because the stardust that makes her is the same stardust that makes me.
Nikita Gill
#9. Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well," the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place ...
Keith B. Darrell
#10. The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!
Rene Magritte
#11. As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre ... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?
Max Irons
#12. I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Every woman who's met you wants a shot at you. How could you ever think you're the consolation prize?
Jamie McGuire
#13. I love that Katie would never, ever, in a million years, treat anyone as blatantly shitty as you've treated her tonight. It's a shame you're so thoroughly self-absorbed that it renders you incapable of getting to know her, because believe me, if you could, you'd be a better person for it.
Kim Holden
#14. Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
Annie Dillard
#15. What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years where's anything of interest to people?
Stan Lee
#16. But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that's frightening.
Maya Banks
#17. I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. What more could you want if you were that smart and that beautiful?
Haruki Murakami
#19. 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'
Zhuangzi
#20. The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)
John Bytheway
#21. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
Cornelia Funke
#23. How could you not know that there is nothing in the world I want as much as I want you?
Julianne Donaldson
#24. You will know when the time comes, Cloudstar replied. Could you be any more vague? Firestar thought irritably.
Erin Hunter
#25. Billy, honey, could you get me another drink from the bar? I'm almost done with this one. Kate
pulls on his arm, cutting off what I'm sure would have been a brilliant retort.
Are you feeling the sarcasm?
Emma Chase
#26. Subtle astral colors ... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#27. Yes
It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.
Or sunshine, love, salvation.
It could, you know. That's why we wake
and look out - no guarantees
in this life.
But some bonuses, like morning,
like right now, like noon,
like evening.
William Stafford
#28. How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
Ann Brashares
#29. Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
Kurt Russell
#30. It made Chloe wonder, how much could you hold in your arms if they weren't full of constantly falling pieces of yourself?
Erica Bauermeister
#31. What in the hell is going on around here?" she yelled. "Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-carrier noise?
Rachel Caine
#32. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" As
Warren Berger
#33. I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?
Sue Grafton
#34. Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Irvin D. Yalom
#35. Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
George Orwell
#36. If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
Jodi Picoult
#37. I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?
Margot Kidder
#38. If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?
Stephenie Meyer
#39. Then again, could you go through a colonoscopy with someone and not be wedded for life?
Deb Caletti
#40. Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?" Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. "Could you guys try to lay low?
Holly Black
#41. How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
Jeaniene Frost
#42. How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
Janet Fitch
#43. Having a sister is like having a thumb; you simply believe it will always be there, because how could you possibly get along without it?
Bette Lee Crosby
#44. Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less
um
'
Hugh: 'Pained?
Emma Thompson
#45. Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open ... I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I'm just not strong enough. Could you help me? Please? Oh, great. Oh, Jason, you're so strong ... Seriously? That was me now? On the other hand , a guy was following me.
Meg Cabot
#46. Shane grudgingly donating blood -
"Yeah about that...could you get us a human ?" Shane asked.
"It creeps me out when a guy's draining my blood and I
hear his stomach rumble.
Rachel Caine
#47. What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.
Seth
#48. So how could you ever eat another strawberry and not know that God loves you? I want you to think about that every time you eat a strawberry. Do you hear me?
Allison Pittman
#49. How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?
Anna Gavalda
#50. Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?
Jase Robertson
#51. But how could you believe me? after all the thousands of times i told you i loved you how could you let one word break your faith in me
Stephenie Meyer
#52. On top of all that, you're naked. And while I'm going to hate myself for this later, could you put on some clothes? At least just for a little while, so I can think. Then you can go right back to being naked. All the time. With my full blessing.
Lish McBride
#53. Trust was such a fragile thing, and once it was lost, it could never be fully restored. Could you ever truly trust anyone?
Kelly Moran
#54. What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life?
You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks.
Take four unrelated people and make a family.
Sarah Ellis
#55. Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
Basil Rathbone
#56. What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?
Stephen R. Covey
#57. The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
R. Scott Bakker
#58. How could you not know that those were super murder-fish...?
Annette Marie
#59. My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'
Dule Hill
#60. O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
St. Catherine Of Siena
#61. The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.
Armistead Maupin
#62. You wondered how you'd make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you're looking for, is the one thing you can't see.
Vanessa L. Williams
#63. Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.
Ann Brashares
#64. How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
George Orwell
#66. How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
Jojo Moyes
#67. That was your bad, how could you pass up on em? He just take them records and he gas up on em.
Drake
#68. Could you bite back your complaints? You're fucking with my run."
"Your run is fucking with my ability to complain," Tom called back.
S.E. Jakes
#69. Your child is happy. What else could you want?
Yannick Noah
#70. How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?
Ross Spears
#71. No tea for you. How could you do that to John? I got home from the beach at four this morning, and he shows up at eight, distraught, fully armed, waving his nightstick!
Jennifer Echols
#72. You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.
Maya Banks
#73. If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
Sam Harris
#74. I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?"
"Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.
Jana Deleon
#75. Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.
Joe Eszterhas
#76. His avid look made her feel not beautiful and loved, but ugly and ashamed. How could you be violated by mere eyes? How could you be lovers with someone, and yet feel every moment alone with them intruded upon your privacy, your dignity?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#78. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing? Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice. With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you. They
Margaret Atwood
#79. You don't understand. How could you? We were in the worst sort of hell. We weren't living day to day or even hour to hour. We survived minute by excruciating minute. The next day was an eternity away and we didn't want it. Death wasn't the enemy. It was our salvation.
Maya Banks
#80. Could you free yourself from the chains of the oppressors and learn to live in the beauty of YOU?
Tony Curl
#81. I forgot my eraser," I told her, "so if you have an extra, could you let me borrow it?" She took her eraser, broke it in two, and gave me half. And smiled broadly. Like the saying goes, in that instant I fell in love.
Haruki Murakami
#82. What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?
DeVon Franklin
#83. How could you afford to buy me those shoes today?
Flushed, he groans into my ear, "You made me."
"I did not."
"You made me love you.
Sarah Hina
#84. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
Michael Ondaatje
#85. I had this feeling deep down that I couldn't live without her. When
you finally find a person who makes you feel alive, how could you possibly
breathe if she were gone? I knew I couldn't.
E.L. Montes
#86. State your name."
"Venice Huber."
"Occupation?"
"Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act - after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh - homemaker. Could you die?
Paul Rudnick
#87. I'm not going to answer that because it's ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that?
Kaitlyn Oruska
#88. How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you too
Kate Bush
#89. If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?
Jerry Seinfeld
#90. Could you love me, love me, love me
Do it, please, fall for me.
Baby, give me one more moment,
Just one more moment with you.
~"Fly Away" by Leo Tate
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#91. Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you ... ?
Mark Lepper
#93. Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
Barbara Boxer
#94. Say!
In the dark?
Here in the dark!
Would you, could you, in the dark?
Dr. Seuss
#95. Could you love someone so much that, even without meaning to, you hurt them?
Jodi Picoult
#96. Who are you after?"
"The snarky asshole one."
"Could you be a little more specific."
"The one who has a staff and throws their toys out of the pram that one."
"Ooh."
"Yeah.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#97. Everyone keeps saying, "Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating." It's like saying, "How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she's been with Brad Pitt?" I don't care.
Adam Carolla
#98. The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?
Charles Templeton
#99. He wiped out Jericho, and He saved a harlot. What kind of God was this? He seemed at once impossibly holy and ridiculously merciful. How could you tie those two incongruities together? Rahab
Tessa Afshar
#100. After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they could talk as well as any wolf. Unlike wolves, however, they mostly used their mouths, a thing she found limiting. How could you tell someone to keep away from your food when your own mouth was full?
Jane Lindskold
