Wouldn't It Be Nice Quotes

“Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.”

— Garry Douglas Kilworth

“Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?”

— Bill Konigsberg

“Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.”

— Nora Roberts

“If you pledge yourself to the Inquisition, to me, and swear to use your powers and your knowledge to send malfettos back to the Underworld, I will give you everything you've ever wanted. I can grant your every desire. Money? Power? Respect? Done." He smiles. "You can redeem yourself, change from an abomination in the gods' eyes to a savior. You can help me fix this world. Wouldn't it be nice, not having to run anymore?" He pauses, and for a moment, a note of real, painful tragedy enters his voice. "We are not supposed to exist, Adelina. We were never meant to be." We are mistakes.”

— Marie Lu

“You didn't look at Xan and think, "Gosh, I want to make love to him" or "Wouldn't it be nice to have some sex with that guy".
No. You took one look at Xan and you fell to your quivering knees, thinking, "Holy shit, I need that man to fuck me.”

— Madeline Sheehan

“But surely the purpose of-I mean, wouldn't it be nice if you ended up with some creature that started to think about the universe-?" "Good gravy, I don't want anything poking around!" said the god testily. "There's enough patches and stitches in it as it is without some clever devil trying to find more, I can assure you. No, the gods on the mainland have got that right at least. Intelligence is like legs-too many and you trip yourself up. Six is about the right number, in my view.”

— Terry Pratchett

“People are drawn to you because you make them feel happy; I understand that. But wouldn't it be nice to have people flock to you wishing for your happiness?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?”

— Tom Hodgkinson

“I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?”

— Michael Lewis

“I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.”

— Jennifer Beals

“But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;”

— Steven D. Levitt

“I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'”

— Helena Bonham Carter

“Wouldn't it be nice if the world was flat? That way we could just push off the people we don't like.”

— Anonymous.

“Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'”

— Zooey Deschanel

“Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Wouldn't it be nice to be done with it? To be done with sex and longing? Mitchell could almost imagine pulling it off, sitting on a bridge at night with the Seine flowing by. He looked up at all the lighted windows along the river's arc. He thought of all the people going to sleep or reading or listening to music, all the lives contained by a great city like this, and, floating up in his mind, rising just above the rooftops, he tried to feel, to vibrate among, all those million tremulous souls. He was sick of craving, of wanting, of hoping, of losing.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream. [ ... ] Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America-those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D.C.”

— Ronald Reagan

“The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.”

— Ruben Martinez

“Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt ... and not get emotionally involved?”

— Marilyn Monroe

“When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.”

— Mark Millar

“Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people, wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along, as an example, with Russia?”

— Donald Trump

“I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.”

— Alicia Keys

“You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.”

— John Lennon

“I always had a weak chin because we couldn't afford to correct my bite, which could have been corrected with braces. So the chin was always weak. And I always was - kind of hated my profile. And I thought wouldn't it be nice someday to feel the rain on your chin without having to look up.”

— Carol Burnett

“Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?”

— Cate Blanchett

“Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?”

— Lenny Bruce

“Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?”

— Charles M. Schulz

“Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?”

— Robert Breault