If I Could Quotes - Page 36

• I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.

  Tom Cruise

  Sister, My Sister, Ifs

  "No more Mr Nice Guy" by Neil Strauss, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2004.

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• The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Swimming, Animal

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• I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.

  Miley Cyrus

  Sleep, Ifs

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• Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

  Paula Deen

  Growing Up, School, Kitchen

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• If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Self, Giving, Advice

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• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Children, Parent

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• I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

  Bruce Dickinson

  Captain Kirk, Captains, Fame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

  Leo Fender

  Bass, Wonder, Electric

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• I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Home, School

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• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Nobel, Persons

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

  Bobby Flay

  Accomplishment, People, Proud

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• I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Thinking, Interesting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sleep, Driving, Socializing

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• If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Keys, Choices, Bird

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• If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

  Gilbert Gottfried

  War, Lunch, World

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• I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

  Ariana Grande

  Money, Stores, Shops

  "Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande on New Nick Comedy 'Sam & Cat'". Interview with Casey Lewis, www.teenvogue.com. May 29, 2013.

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• I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

  Matt Groening

  Judging, Pay, Miserable

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• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  Tom Hanks

  Phones, Mail, Introvert

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• I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

  Anne Hathaway

  Princess, Diaries, Film

  The Associated Press Interview, www.cbsnews.com. June 21, 2006.

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• If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

  Hunter Hayes

  Noise, Ifs

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• We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Travel, Home

  "The Essential Hazlitt".

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• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

  Ken Hensley

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  Sam Houston

  Honesty, Character, Men

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