Top 100 I Would Like Quotes
#1. I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably.
Santiago Roncagliolo
#2. I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.
Jamie Lawson
#3. I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.
Andy Cohen
#4. I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
Karen Gillan
#5. I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
Fred Saberhagen
#6. I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
Alexis Bledel
#7. I would like, at the end, to be able to see the tree outside the bedroom window, to sit or lie on the flower-filled sun porch, ... to feel that the children and friends, if they wanted to visit, could come to the place of beauty that [we] had shaped.
Herbert Kramer
#8. I would like to be able to breathe - to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
Albert Camus
#9. I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
Sam Worthington
#10. My co-star would be ... One of my actual best friends. I am blessed to have so many beautiful talented people around me, I would like them all in my film please!!!
E.J. Bonilla
#11. What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
Tony Abbott
#12. I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
Peter Davison
#13. I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
Nick Faldo
#14. I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
Mathieu Kerekou
#15. I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.
Joanna Cannon
#16. You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#17. I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
Ratan Tata
#18. What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
Gloria Steinem
#19. I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
Matt Damon
#20. As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
#21. I think the inner person is the most important ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
Julia Child
#22. I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
Nina Simone
#23. Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.
Frankie Muniz
#24. All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Alain Robert
#25. I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions ... It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.
Eva Hesse
#26. I want, I think, to be omniscient. I think I would like to call myself "the girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body where would I be-perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it.
Sylvia Plath
#27. I would like to build a garden," she declared. "After all of this... I think the world needs more gardens."
My throat was too tight to immediately reply, so I just kissed my sister's cheek before I said, "Yes - I think it does.
Sarah J. Maas
#28. I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
Jason Isbell
#29. I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
John Lennon
#31. I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him ... and try to make peace.
Donnie Wahlberg
#32. I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#33. I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#34. Naturally, I now love Jesus very much. Yes, I love him so damn much that I would like to crucify him all over again!
Carl Panzram
#35. I would like to burn them to ground and stand on their ashes.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.
Aviv Nevo
#37. I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
Francis Bacon
#38. I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!
Helene Cixous
#39. The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Scott Turow
#40. Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.
Paulo Coelho
#41. I would like to point out that as soon as Lieutenant Ekalu let you know that actually, your intended compliment was offensive to her, you immediately stopped trying to be nice.
Ann Leckie
#42. I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Minoru Yamasaki
#43. I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
George Papandreou
#44. I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence ... as a snail leaves its slime.
Francis Bacon
#45. I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.
Romy Schneider
#46. I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
Yitzhak Rabin
#47. I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.
Nobuo Uematsu
#48. I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen
#49. If there was an exit interview on the hour of our death I would like to be asked the question, "Was it worth it?" To which my response would be, "Yes, emphatically yes...but just barely.
Michael Morris
#50. There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
Jo Bonner
#51. I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
Geddy Lee
#52. The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
Norman Rockwell
#53. If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Cornelia Funke
#54. I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?
Vince Gironda
#55. But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.
Jay Mohr
#56. I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
Margot Asquith
#57. I would like to invite you to savour every moment of this experiential journey. Feel the energies of the earth, listen to them calling on the wind, whispering their secrets and beckoning you to explore their mysteries.
Carole Carlton
#58. If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#59. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.
Pope John Paul II
#60. I would like a window seat," I said, imagining the stars streaming by.
Ken Liu
#61. I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion
and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
Ram Dass
#62. My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
Carla Hall
#63. And, Bianca, come with me. I would like to speak with you."
"What about me?" Nico asked.
Rick Riordan
#64. I had noticed, for example, how all my infatuations dissolved as soon as I really became friends with a man, became sympathetic to his problems, listened to him kvetch about his wife, or ex-wives, his mother, his children. After that I would like him, perhaps even love him - but without passion.
Erica Jong
#65. I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#66. Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!
Elizabeth Peters
#67. I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
Maya Angelou
#68. I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#69. I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.
David Beckham
#70. I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.
Antony Gormley
#71. All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.
Noel Gallagher
#72. Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.
Ruben Blades
#73. I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.
Noah Hathaway
#74. Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde
#75. For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
Geddy Lee
#76. I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.
Courteney Cox
#77. In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.
Margaret Atwood
#78. I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Rosa Parks
#79. In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.
Lee Byung-hun
#80. Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.
Allison Tolman
#81. Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.
Chloe Bennet
#82. Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.
Suzanne Finnamore
#83. I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.
Peter Ham
#84. One day I would like to have my own art show.
Kiana Tom
#85. I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
Sarah Dessen
#86. I would like to do commercials, or even work for WWE if they called me. I wouldn't want to go back on the air or manage again, but I would like to be a spokesperson and do stuff like that.
Bobby Heenan
#87. I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
Abraham Lincoln
#88. My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.
Nita Ambani
#89. It seems to me that I have found my Heaven on earth, since Heaven is God, and God is [in] my soul.3 The day I understood that, everything became clear to me. I would like to whisper this secret to those I love so they too might always cling to God through everything,
Elizabeth Of The Trinity Catez
#90. I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.
Doris Lessing
#91. I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
Robert Doisneau
#92. I would like to do a music person's story, a bio. I've wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I don't want it to always be like, 'I'm singing again in a movie.'
Keke Palmer
#93. Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
Tony Visconti
#94. I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.
Joanna Lumley
#95. Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#96. The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.
Mark Leibovich
#97. I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Major Owens
#98. I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
Kurt Vonnegut
#99. I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.
Charlize Theron
#100. Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.
Yanni
