If I Could Quotes - Page 17

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom...but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

Jason Behr

Mom, Thinking, High Heels

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

Dane DeHaan

Would Be, World, Golfers

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If I could pick my wife by name, It'd be Whitney. That name just sounds right

Joel Madden

Names, Wife, Sound

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If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

Juliet Stevenson

Wall, Artist, Sitting

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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

Ted Shackelford

Ark, Vans, Ifs

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If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

Slash

Dinner, Hendrix, Hanging Out

"Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.

Lee Cowan

Jobs, Nbc News, Justice

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Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer along to my favorite places along the seacoasts or in the mountains to the secret places of nature.

Ariana Richards

Light, Secret Places, Mountain

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I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

Roxanne McKee

Nice, Praise, Enough

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

Lisa Stansfield

Magnificence, Today, Way

Song: Change, Album: Real Love

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If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.

Piper Kerman

Strong, Powerful, Kindness

Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.280, Spiegel & Grau

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I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

Lynn Flewelling

Book, Hero, Character

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If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

Mary Szybist

Color, Scent, Pages

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan

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If I could take my entire savings in place of something, I’d chose time.

Jang Keun-suk

Saving, Savings, Ifs

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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.

Richard Jordan

Army, Gun, Men

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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

Campbell Scott

Crazy, Years, Interesting

"Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

David James

Beautiful, Might, Remember

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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Christopher Nolan

Dream, Stealing, Ifs

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Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Pete Townshend

Drinking, Would Be, Way

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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

Babe Ruth

Baseball, Play, Salary

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President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

John F. Kerry

Upset, Black, President

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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

Robin Morgan

Freedom, Agony, White

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

William Merritt Chase

Life, Four, Aging

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I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?

Faraaz Kazi

Sad Love, Love You, Wonder

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In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

David Morse

Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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