2,367 Quotes About Would-be

  • Author L. Frank Baum
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    "In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

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  • Author Leonard Baskin
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    Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

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  • Author Lewis Black
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    You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

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  • Author Lewis Black
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    Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

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  • Author Louise Bourgeois
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    I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

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  • Author Ludwig Börne
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    Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

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  • Author Ludwig van Beethoven
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    Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

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  • Author Lynda Barry
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    I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

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