Might Quotes - Page 151

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

As cheesy and melodramatic as it might sound, love excites me more than anything... in all its forms.

I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening to a lot of classical music lately for some reason. I used to do that a lot when I was doing cabinet making in New England. I've sort of returned to that for some reason. That might be surprising to people.

Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research as you want, as you can. Now that you have such open access to the Internet, it's very easy to do so.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

Someone might say that's a naïve way of looking at things now, and I would respect their opinion, but I also respect every woman's right to wearing her own individual style, including hair.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.