I Would Have Quotes

#1. I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#2. I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

Bat For Lashes

#3. I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before.

Orson Scott Card

#4. As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Shelby Foote

#5. If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#6. My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Eva Zeisel

#7. ... and tell him how I felt - how I really felt - and see if he might want to give it another chance. Even if he said no, at least I would have tried. At least I would have tried to be as honest as I could be. Because right now I was just running away when things got too real.

Morgan Matson

#8. I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.

Graham Greene

#9. If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

B.B. King

#10. If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

Shaun White

#11. Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

Joe Namath

#12. I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

Todd Haynes

#13. I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

Todd Barry

#14. Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.

Bill Richardson

#15. I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.

Zach Braff

#16. It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

Jo Brand

#17. I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

Charles Dance

#18. I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Kevin Spacey

#19. I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Glen Campbell

#20. I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Goodman Ace

#21. I knew how to use a dictionary, and if I was going to be spending time around Nero Wolfe, I would have to buy one."-Archie Goodwin in Archie Meets Nero Wolfe

Robert Goldsborough

#22. As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

Johnny Ramone

#23. I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

David Thorne

#24. I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

Katrina Kaif

#25. No! See, that's the thing-you were the one I would have chosen, even if there were no fate."
...
"I wanted you, even when I wasn't supposed to be with you.

Erica O'Rourke

#26. Josh Sanderson, I liked you first. By all rights, you were mine. And if it had been me, I'd have packed you in my suitcase and taken you with me, or, you know what, I would have stayed. I would never have left you. Not in a million years, not for anything.

Jenny Han

#27. We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther to myself.

Ben Marcus

#28. I would have loved to have had a gay dad. At school, there were always kids saying 'my dad is bigger than your dad, my dad will batter your dad!' So what? My dad will shag your dad..and your dad will enjoy it.

Frankie Boyle

#29. I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

Louise Bourgeois

#30. There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

Curtis Joseph

#31. I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

Cameron Mathison

#32. My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Penn Jillette

#33. What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.

Oswald Pohl

#34. If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

Rush Limbaugh

#35. He brushed the hair back from her brow. "Were you scared, baby?"
"No," she said, shaking her head. "I knew you were coming."
"You did?"
She touched her chest. "Your heart beats in here. If it had stopped, I would have known. It did beat a little fast sometimes.

Robyn Carr

#36. I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

Lotte Jacobi

#37. I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.

CeCe McDonald

#38. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

Jean Shrimpton

#39. If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

Lynda Barry

#40. I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.

William J. Clinton

#41. My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter named America. If I'd paid attention at all, I would have seen it years ago.

Kiera Cass

#42. If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Michael Corbat

#43. Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

Alfonso X Of Castile

#44. If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither.

Cormac McCarthy

#45. As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Charles De Gaulle

#46. I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

Rob Mariano

#47. I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

Michelle Rodriguez

#48. Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

Bill Gates

#49. If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

Douglas Adams

#50. When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

Katey Sagal

#51. I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

Alex Trebek

#52. I wish I would have known you earlier so I could love you longer.
- Derek Miles

Derek Miles

#53. I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.

Shirley Temple

#54. I mean sleeping with you was plan B. Dewey jumped the gun on that one, though I can't say as I blame him. If I were in his shoes, I'm not sure I would have even bothered with plan A." (Wendell)

Marshall Thornton

#55. Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.

Nana Awere Damoah

#56. If sleep wasn't necessary, I would have used those 8 hours just to gaze at you.

Amit Kalantri

#57. In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates.

May Sarton

#58. If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

George H. Morris

#59. I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

C.S. Forester

#60. I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Sam Worthington

#61. It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.

Jim Webb

#62. When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

Anne Hathaway

#63. Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

Tahir Shah

#64. I would have appreciated the satisfaction of a carnal paroxysm - in my experience, they bring a sparkle to the eye as well as brightness to the complexion and a spring to the step - but using Stoker to achieve that end was a means I could not begin to contemplate.

Deanna Raybourn

#65. I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.

Tim Berners-Lee

#66. I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

Lloyd Blankfein

#67. The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Orlando Bloom

#68. If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

Justin Verlander

#69. I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about

Ian Kershaw

#70. If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

Nate Mendel

#71. My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

Georges Clemenceau

#72. Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton

Barbara W. Tuchman

#73. And that's a life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments. It's been interesting to me, though I wouldn't complain or be amazed if others found it less so. Maybe, in a way, Adrian knew what he was doing. Not that I would have missed my own life for anything, you understand. [pp.60-61]

Julian Barnes

#74. Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

Muhammad Ali

#75. Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to them what their ancestors did to my country.

Craig Ferguson

#76. If I were lucky enough to sit by you, I would have talked to you.

Stephenie Meyer

#77. I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

Karl Urban

#78. You have to have something to lean on when you have more than one team. I don't really agree with making the move four weeks before the Chase. That's not how I would have done it.

Kevin Harvick

#79. I would have bought you some more, but since they didn't have tags in them, I didn't know what size to buy. (Sunshine)
Great. I live to be stuck in strange places, naked. (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#80. Stopping before them, St. Vincent confided, I would have found you sooner, but I was attacked by a swarm of dingy-dippers.

Lisa Kleypas

#81. The moment my lips found her body, we quickly became an erupting volcano. Hot and fast. Very fast. Fast enough that I would have given her my virginity.

Katie McGarry

#82. In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Albert Einstein

#83. I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Cher

#84. I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

Katharine Hepburn

#85. If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

Christine Taylor

#86. Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

Anna Lee

#87. When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

John Baldessari

#88. Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Rick Riordan

#89. I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

Alec Baldwin

#90. As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

David Sedaris

#91. If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Helen Reddy

#92. I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

Jerry Reed

#93. By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Eric Bristow

#94. There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

Oprah Winfrey

#95. For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough to walk into a room with someone like Larry David and audition.

Cheryl Hines

#96. I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

Jerry Only

#97. I would have thought that your being sent by the wisest men in your country, supposedly, to fight a nearly endless, thankless, horrifying, and, finally, pointless war, would have given you sufficient insight into the nature of humanity to last you throughout all eternity!

Kurt Vonnegut

#98. couldn't just tell her to go to hell and get out of my life. If I did, I felt like I would have no one, and I seemed to continue the hopeless path of trying to please her, make her see my caring for her, get her to acknowledge me or what?

Massimilla Harris

#99. How did your day go?"
"I got some head. It was vamp, but still."
I stared at her. Kate was the last person I would have expected to make that joke. Well, someone had loosened up since mating. "That good, huh."
"Yup.

Ilona Andrews

#100. Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Cat Stevens