Might Have Been Quotes - Page 17

• Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, Two, Screw Ups

  Dolly Parton, Randy Schmidt (2017). “Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation”, p.145, Omnibus Press

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• I was surprised that President [Barak] Obama would be so bold to come here [UK] and tell people what to do.I think a lot of people don't like him and I think if he had not said it I think you're result might have been different.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

  Jane Austen

  Half, Body, Might

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• No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, People, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.

  Wendell Johnson

  Might, Has Beens, Ifs

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• It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

  Anne Roiphe

  War, Writing, D Day

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn't entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.

  Sophie Blackall

  Eye, Thinking, Dinner

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Photography, War, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, World, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

  W. S. Merwin

  Thinking, Different, Might

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Self, Victory

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• My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

  Norman Lock

  Drama, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We might have been a free and great people together.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, History, Together

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.

  Philip French

  Stars, Two, People

  "The Pink Panther" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  Kevin Spacey

  Want, Might, Scene

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

  Simon Newcomb

  Might, Mathematician, Has Beens

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Might, Lasts

  Edward Gibbon (1788). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.37

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• With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Land, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far more grounded when it came. The last few years of my life have just been surreal and after a lifetime of disappointment and heartache and rejection, I still don't believe this is all actually happening. I'm extremely grateful for my success - I just never expect it to last and my motto, if I have one, is just put your head down and do the job.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Disappointment, Grateful

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

  Rita Dove

  School, Thinking, White

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own

  Roger Scruton

  Loyalty, Attitude, Hands

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• Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

  Robert Orben

  Taxation Without Representation, Might, Wonder

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• Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, Thinking, Impact

  "And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• ... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

  Bliss Perry

  Ideas, Might, Frogs

  Bliss Perry (2014). “A Study of Poetry”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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