Top 100 I Would Like To See Quotes
#1. I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
Buzz Aldrin
#2. And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.
Lombard Philip Lombard
#3. I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
Brian Eno
#4. I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.
Michele Bachmann
#5. As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.
Juicy J
#6. I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
Jana Novotna
#7. I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
Paulo Coelho
#8. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#9. I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces
with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything now.
Robert A. Heinlein
#10. If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
Barack Obama
#11. I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
Harvey Cushing
#12. You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)
Marcel Duchamp
#13. My children are so rarely happy. I ... I would like to see you be an exception.
Rick Riordan
#14. It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.
Helen Mirren
#15. I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project.
Seymour Papert
#16. I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
Harold Prince
#17. I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
Anthony Bourdain
#18. I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.
Robert Plant
#19. In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
Donald Knuth
#20. I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.
Katie Aselton
#21. Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.
Sarah Palin
#22. Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen.
Bernie Sanders
#23. The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
Bobby Fischer
#24. The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state ... I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
Avigdor Lieberman
#25. That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
Sofia Coppola
#26. I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.
Jim Knight
#27. I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.
David Malpass
#28. Ten years from now, I would like to see myself successful as a brand, like Jessica Simpson, with babies running around and a beautiful husband and my own reality show.
Nicole Polizzi
#29. I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
Annie Oakley
#30. I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
Neil Gaiman
#31. I would like to see a president with a monocle.
Greg Gutfeld
#33. I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
Patrick Stewart
#34. I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.
Michelle Rodriguez
#35. I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
Nancy Gibbs
#36. Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
Alexandre Aja
#37. One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests.
Ryan Holmes
#38. I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.
Alex D. Linz
#39. I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#40. The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.
Ronald Takaki
#41. If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#42. Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hafez
#43. I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
B.F. Skinner
#44. If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
Gary Johnson
#45. I have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves
these i would like to see
but far more than sight
i wish for my ears to be opened
the voice of a friend
the imaginations of mozart
life without these is darker by far
than blindness
Helen Keller
#46. I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
Jack Black
#47. I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
George Lucas
#49. I would like to see more films being made with people of color behind the camera and in front of the camera, because the more times at bat we have, the better we get.
Stephanie Allain
#50. There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.
Alan W. Watts
#51. I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.
Norman Lamm
#52. Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.
Abdus Salam
#53. I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.
Josef Koudelka
#54. I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.
Mickey Edwards
#55. I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
Woody Guthrie
#56. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.
Phil Jones
#57. I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.
Marilyn Manson
#59. I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.
John Gimlette
#60. It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.
Bob Menendez
#61. I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.
David Cameron
#62. What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.
Henry Rollins
#63. I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
Robert Englund
#64. It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
Gabriela Sabatini
#65. Maybe I would like to see beauty again before I die." "Bah. What would you carve? What would you see before you die? What could be worth your life?" "Man's nobility - the most sublime form of beauty.
Terry Goodkind
#66. I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#67. If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.
Mordechai Vanunu
#68. I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.
Winona LaDuke
#69. I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.
Esther Dyson
#70. I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.
Burt Lancaster
#71. The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
Andrew Bird
#72. I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
Annie Lennox
#73. I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.
Stephanie Seymour
#74. The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Billy Connolly
#75. I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.
Ronda Rousey
#76. I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.
Leonor Fini
#77. I would like to see more control and more criticism coming from Europe. The constant expressions of friendship for former President Eduard Shevardnadze, who made some contribution to German unity, were counterproductive for our country.
Irakli Okruashvili
#78. I would like to see myself with some successful albums, and I'd love to be working with new artists as well as continuing to release my own material. I'd also like to be settled in a lovely place with a lovely partner and gorgeous mini ginger Jess!
Jess Glynne
#79. I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
Aasif Mandvi
#80. I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
Nina Hagen
#81. I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what was wrought in the past
the men who were destroyed without their being lifted from the dungheap of poverty, without recourse to justice.
F. Sionil Jose
#82. Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.
David Gelernter
#83. I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.
Ben Quayle
#84. I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.
Sonakshi Sinha
#85. I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.
Jessye Norman
#86. I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.
Kim Dotcom
#87. I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
Sergey Brin
#88. What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.
Mike Pence
#89. 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
#91. I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
Edmund Phelps
#92. I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
Tamara Feldman
#93. 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
#94. I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
George Papandreou
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.
John Woo
#98. I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
Maggie Grace
#99. One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.
Michael Andretti
#100. I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.
Steve Chabot
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