Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Al Stewart

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Al Pacino

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

David Guetta

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Caitlin Moran

I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.

Bryan Davis

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

Catherynne M. Valente

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

William Shakespeare

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

Charles Koch

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

Ai Weiwei

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

Bliss Carman

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Edward Hirsch

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

Derek Jarman

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Derek Jeter

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Deepika Padukone

Katrina Kaif is doing very well for herself and I'd like to wish her a very Happy Birthday

Dennis Miller

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.

Ed Helms

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Elizabeth Montagu

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

Eliza Coupe

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Cheri Huber

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

Charles Baudelaire

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.