Top 100 If I Could Quotes
#1. The shortest path to success in art, if I could put it into words, is altruism, but if you don't care about anything in the world, and even get angry at people that show you the truth, how can you be altruistic?
Daniel Marques
#2. I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
Brent Musburger
#3. I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
Rodney Carrington
#4. If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.
Mary E. Pearson
#5. I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.
Mavis Gallant
#6. If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
Samantha Bee
#7. I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.
John Waters
#8. I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
Dane DeHaan
#9. I am. But if I could motorboat perfect tits like yours I might be able to find Jesus.
Christina Lauren
#10. Oh, if I could choose," said Mabel, "of course I'd marry a brigand, and live in his mountain fastness, and be kind to his captives and help them to escape and-" "You'll be a real treasure to your husband." said Gerald.
E. Nesbit
#11. Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. If I could wash away one memory from my life to date, it would be the suffering in his eyes while I was raped in front of him.
Pam Godwin
#13. Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.
Ally Spina
#14. It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.
Julie Brown
#15. I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.
Rod McKuen
#16. I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel
#17. If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds - even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.
James Hilton
#18. I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
John Sexton
#19. There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
Billy Collins
#20. There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.
George Borrow
#21. Seriously. Let. Go. Of. The. Car."
He let go of the car and said, "Suit yourself."
"It would suit me if I could travel back in time and not click 'book now' on that stupid webpage
Kristen Ashley
#22. If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.
Edgar Allan Poe
#23. Evie's head is pressed tightly to my chest; I would pull her inside of me and have my heart beat for us both if I could.
Amy A. Bartol
#24. I never dye my own hair, I don't know if I could get every spot, and I have a good bit of grey.
Andie MacDowell
#25. He was at once severe and beautiful, and the more the played, the more I felt surrounded by that cushion as well, as if I could fall and never hit the ground, as long as he was playing.
Brodi Ashton
#27. If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great.
Rip Torn
#29. I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.
Mary Badham
#30. I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.
Jane Hamilton
#31. If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
Christopher Meloni
#33. All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.
Jennifer McMahon
#34. If I could have, I would've taken you with me," Walker said. "That I couldn't do, but I could make sure you had the tools to survive."
It didn't answer Aden's question, but he didn't push.
Then Walker added, "You're not my son, Aden, but that's how I've always thought of you.
Nalini Singh
#35. My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
Pam Grier
#36. Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it.
Sylvia Plath
#37. If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
T.E. Lawrence
#38. What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest. (p. 109)
Andre Aciman
#39. Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.
Lewis Hamilton
#40. Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since.
Johnny Cash
#41. If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
Christian Morgenstern
#42. I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
Jemaine Clement
#43. If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn't have a reason to dance.
Mary Wigman
#44. Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.
Chris Colfer
#45. My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
Kate Bush
#46. I was caged by him like a bird with clipped wings. I could flutter but I couldn't escape though I'm not certain I'd want to even if I could.
Paloma Beck
#47. The only weapon I had was my dancing.
With that I fought like a general without an army.
If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.
Maya Plisetskaya
#48. From our few days together, I have only one regret. Why did I not love you harder, stronger? If I could have you Love, now, I'd hold you so closely that our particles would absorb into one another. - Isabella de Reims
Nick Bantock
#49. Yeah, yeah," Wayne said. "That too. But if I could get everybody drunk, think how much happier this city would be." "So long as you get me drunk first, I'd be fine with it." She held out her cup to him. "Top a lady off, will you?
Brandon Sanderson
#50. If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.
George S. Patton
#51. I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.
Jack White
#52. I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.
Stan Freberg
#53. My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
#54. I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
Ralph Abernathy
#55. I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I
Simon Van Booy
#56. I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.
Caroline Rhea
#57. If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.
Bret Stephens
#58. If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up
lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.
Maya Angelou
#59. People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
Helena Bonham Carter
#60. I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.
Suzanne Collins
#61. Would it be worth it to have the mutation if I knew she loved me? I wonder. If I could trade places with him right now, would I do it?
Ally Condie
#62. I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.
Neal Shusterman
#63. Listen, that girl is my world, and I can't stand the thought of anyone hurting her. I'd handle this myself if I could play the game and be by her side at the same time, but I can't
J. Sterling
#64. If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.
Wally Lamb
#65. If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.
Todd Lowe
#66. If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.
Thandie Newton
#67. I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
Renny Harlin
#68. Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.
Jeff Dunham
#69. If I could, I'd eat pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Lauren Johnson
#70. I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
Lady Starlight
#71. Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
Patricia Briggs
#72. If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound
#73. Jamie's kissing was out of this world. If I could, I would live right in this moment and never move.
Kirsty Moseley
#74. I don't know about young Thor and King Thor getting their own series someday, although it would be nice if I could write three Thor series at the same time.
Jason Aaron
#75. I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.
Arnold Palmer
#76. If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.
Cuthbert
#77. She cried herself to sleep, and I held her until she stopped. I rolled over and pushed my face into the pillow. I figured if I could muffle my own crying, I would not wake her.
Linwood Barclay
#78. Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.
Jack Kerouac
#79. If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
Robert Greene
#80. If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
Robin Trower
#81. If I could be who you wanted, all the time
Radiohead
#82. I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.
Henry James
#83. What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just ... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.
Tony Hale
#84. I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.
Tori Amos
#85. I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.
Shay Mitchell
#86. Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me - not if I could help it.
Patricia Briggs
#87. I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.
Sam Watkins
#88. I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
Alan Rickman
#89. I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.
Birdman
#90. If I could caste the Sun run as liquid
I would bid it pool warm at your feet
Stanley Christopher
#91. If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.
Rob Kardashian
#92. There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.
Robert Breault
#93. I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
Hansie Cronje
#94. I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.
Gary Shteyngart
#95. I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.
Jon Stewart
#96. You owe me."
"What do I owe you? All the things I gave you. How I took care of you. Money, information ... pleasure. I denied you nothing. If I could give it to you, I did."
"You gave me things that cost you nothing. It certainly didn't seem to be a hardship to fuck me.
Caroline Hanson
#97. I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone else in the room, 'Dave Eggers.'
James Bernard Frost
#98. Then the three of us hug, and if I could choose on moment of my life to sit inside of for the rest of eternity ... it'd be now, no question.
David Mitchell
#99. Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund
#100. If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.
D.L. Moody
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