Should Have Quotes - Page 20

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Nicolas Cage

Doctors, Eight, Blood

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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Maria Callas

Children, Responsibility, Law

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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Elias Canetti

Justice, Literature, Enough

Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

Adam Carolla

Mean, People, Insane

"‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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You should have died when I killed you.

John le Carre

Literature, Should, Died

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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Nicolas Chamfort

Government, Laughing, France

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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

Dave Chappelle

Funny, Thinking, White

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As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Noam Chomsky

Rights, Leader, Youth

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Every child should have a chance to feel special.

Chuck Close

Children, Special, Chance

"For Chuck Close, an Evolving Journey Through the Faces of Others". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2010.

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Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

Brian Clough

Dog, World, Pressure

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Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

Brian Clough

Taken, Walking Away, People

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When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Kurt Cobain

Band, Firsts, Pixies

"The Pixies Talk About Their Reunion, New Music and a Missing Band Member" by Andrew Romano, www.thedailybeast.com. September 20, 2013.

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I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Ty Cobb

Regret, College, Doctors

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I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

Diablo Cody

Mean, Past, Self

"Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

Tom Colicchio

Understanding, Chef, Dessert

"Top Chef's Tom Colicchio: Toby 'Didn't Have the Most Authoritative Voice'". Interview with Gina DiNunno, www.tvguide.com. June 22, 2010.

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You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

Gail Collins

Believe, Fighting, Rights

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Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.

Cat Cora

Country, Children, School

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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Bill Cosby

Family, Children, Parenting

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An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

Donald Cram

Fog, Ideas, Negative

Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Vicente del Bosque

Football, Responsibility, Player

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With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage, Sex, Humorous

Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.81, Zondervan

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I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

Evan Davis

Regret, Perfection, Three

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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Life, Cutting

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Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Eugene V. Debs

Tasks, Produce, Difficult

"Walls and Bars". Book by Eugene V. Debs, 1927.

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I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Johnny Depp

Children, Appreciate, Frustrated

"Johnny Depp: I was angry and frustrated until my first child was born". Interview with Grant Rollings, www.thesun.co.uk. May 7, 2012.

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