#if i could

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#ambition #anything #been #could #free

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#congress #could #create #created #grow

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#also #could #expensive #i #if i could

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? ↗

— Sun Tzu

#could #i #i can #if i could #imagine

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#could #day #drawn #every #every day

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#biologist #could #i #if i could #intelligence

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was. ↗

— Maria Callas

#age #always #back #could #days

If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it. ↗

— Neko Case

#art #blige #could #die #elliott

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired. ↗

— Lee Child

#difficult #gap #going #having #home