Quotes by Would Be I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. Arsenio Hall parentwould-bejobs I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. Arsenio Hall understoodwould-be If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong. Arshile Gorky please-mewould-bedoe When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore. Art Buchwald healthwould-betwo Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing. Arthur Ashe dadwould-benames If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. Arthur Baer human-naturewould-belaw Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans. Arthur Balfour conflictwould-beadvice I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. Arthur Boyd pianowould-bethinking . . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. Arthur C. Clarke long-agowould-bedull Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. Arthur C. Clarke elderlytwentieswould-be There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. Arthur Conan Doyle would-bedullworld He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Arthur Conan Doyle would-becharacterbook Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...) Arthur Conan Doyle cellswould-beyears Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician. Arthur Eddington naturetoolswould-be To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies. Arthur Eddington catwould-bemath Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive. Arthur Frederick Saunders deancharmwould-be More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. Arthur Helps halfwould-beworld Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two? Arthur Hugh Clough expenseswould-betwo I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have. Arthur Rubinstein chainswould-bewant If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. Arthur Schopenhauer boredomessencewould-be«1617181920212223242526»
