Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I could be writing in the open air instead of simply imagining it but that requires the manipulation of screens and kittens, socks and cigarettes and beer and memory"

• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• this entire endeavor could be thought of as a quest for your number
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Could man be drunk for ever
• We Could Be Heroes: tes's Everything2 Heroes Quest
• Be nice to smokers: any cigarette can be their last
• if I could play god there'd be one less child abuser
• you could be asking questions
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• The Ten Commandments revised
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• Could Be Anywhere
• but you wanna be bad
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• Today will be difficult. But tomorrow, good riding.
• Things that could be
• "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• If I could be someone
• Prolific? Maybe. It could just be the mania.
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• Germany could not be appeased
• or i may simply be a single drop of rain
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• let the memories be good for those who stay
• Who Could That Be At This Hour?
• You are a weaponsmith in an open field. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
• How could anybody know how we got to be this way?
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• if you see a raven, don't throw stones; it could be me
• anyone could be your brand new love
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• But we should not be afraid. How else will we discover the answers?
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• Laugh now, because tomorrow I will be ten stories tall and I could just step on you if I want
• It could be the last time you see me alive
• What am I doing here when I could be swimming with the dolphins?
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• You could be so delicious
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Hot pursuit
• Human Consciousness could be Immortal
• Soon to be off the air
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
• nodeshells that could never be satisfactorily filled
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could forget her
• an invitation to be everything you never thought you could be
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• Imagine how happy you might be if you spent less time imagining how happy you might be.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• I am writing you at dawn, on a train headed west, a farewell letter to be mailed at the first transfer station, before I head off into parts unknown.
• My soul is borne through the open air
• I never realized how helpful a visual arts degree could be in fixing sump pumps
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• To be an open-minded person is not a characteristic. It's a skill. It requires effort, and practice.
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• but wherever i go i'll be looking for you
• Imagine how the world would be if only wrecking balls could destroy flowers
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• The best kind of bartender
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• the echoes of memories, brush strokes in the air
• We could all be blind
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• Nothing could be further from the truth
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember her as a firework
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• I didn't think that the air could scream in resistance until you approached me
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?
• There could still be a reunion of The Band
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• That's just my opinion, I could be wrong
• It appears to be a sock castle of some kind
• Nothing could be close to quite like this
• It Could Always Be Worse
• The mountain could be home
• Programs that require Internet Explorer to be installed
• The kinds of friends that books could never be
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember her
• Wacken Open Air
• Everything seems to be up in the air at this time.
• I could taste the air
• Dynamo Open Air
• The cigarette between your fingers seems to be burning slower than normal.
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• If I could be anything I'd be water and I'd be wild about it.
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• Starving in the greenhouse
• People of Earth: we could be heroes.
• You could be the Willow, I could be the Wind.
• Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory!
• a horse that's lost could be dreaming of the girl that's going to find him
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Six reasons -- er, four reasons -- why maybe there could be a (nontheistic) God
• The second chance you give could be your last
• My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be
• She could be a businesswoman
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• Our Band Could Be Your Life
• throw yourself into a memory as if it were air, as if it will save you
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• Ain't what I'm gonna be, ain't what I wanna be, but lord thank you I ain't what I used to be.
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• I want to be the air around you.

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