Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sam Smith

But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

Rush Limbaugh

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

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.

Yoko Ono

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Wynton Marsalis

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

Zig Ziglar

Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'