Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Samuel Johnson

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Robert Jordan

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

Robert Jordan

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Robert Southwell

Few have all they need, none all they wish.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I wish I could be elegant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish these flies would piss off.

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?

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.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Steve Martin

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

Stella McCartney

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Stanley Baldwin

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

Sigmund Freud

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Sigmund Freud

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Robert Anthony

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

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.