Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Altman

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

Ringo Starr

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

Tim Meadows

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Thomas Troward

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Steven Wright

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Steven Wright

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Steven Wright

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.

Tommy Bolin

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

Sam Houston

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

Ron Paul

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Li Bingbing

I wish to create trends rather than follow them.

Leslie Easterbrook

I wish I had a funny story.

Leonard Nimoy

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

Leonard Nimoy

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Lee Kuan Yew

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

Lawrence Durrell

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

Larry David

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Neil Peart

The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.

Marcus Aurelius

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Scoot McNairy

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

L. Ron Hubbard

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Thomas A. Edison

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Simon Bolivar

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

Shel Silverstein

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Sharon Olds

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

Shannen Doherty

I actually wish I had smaller breasts.

Tony Robbins

Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!

Sinead O'Connor

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Simone Elkeles

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.