Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Salman Rushdie

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Whitney Houston

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

Wendy Carlos

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

W. H. Auden

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

William Goldman

[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.

Warren Zevon

I wish I sang better.

Stephenie Meyer

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen

Sonia Sotomayor

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Thomas Pynchon

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Thomas Hardy

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Thomas Jefferson

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Vilfredo Pareto

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Victoria Woodhull

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

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?

Stuart Rose

I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

Stevie Smith

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

Stevie Smith

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Steve Earle

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

Molly Ringwald

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Minoru Yamasaki

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could

Miranda Cosgrove

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

Mike Huckabee

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

Pearl S. Buck

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

Paul Walker

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

Phil Collins

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Peter Sellers

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Peter Capaldi

I wish I’d known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Queen Latifah

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Randall Jarrell

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...