Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fiona Apple

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

Cassandra Clare

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

Cassandra Clare

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Cassandra Clare

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

They were just jumping. I wish I could say it was me.

Janet Fitch

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Cassandra Clare

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.

Cassandra Clare

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Cassandra Clare

Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

Cassandra Clare

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

Evander Holyfield

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!

Fred Rogers

When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

Frank Herbert

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Haile Selassie

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

George Herbert

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Jean de la Bruyere

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Jean de la Bruyere

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

Carlo Goldoni

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Buzz Bissinger

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

James Ellis

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

Nathan Fillion

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

Natalie Cole

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

Muqtada al Sadr

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Ken Wilber

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

Karl A. Menninger

TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

Keith Urban

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

Kevin Powers

Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.

He added, ''I wish him only the best.

Irrfan Khan

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Iris Murdoch

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Idries Shah

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.