Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Norton

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

Conan O'Brien

Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

Dwight Howard

I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel it's the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best.

Dwyane Wade

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

Colin Meloy

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

Alan Zweibel

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

Amanda Hocking

Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers. "You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.

Annie Lennox

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

Clay Shirky

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

D. J. MacHale

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

D. H. Lawrence

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

David Copperfield

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

David Archuleta

Sometimes I wish I could just wear the same thing every day. Cartoons do it. It’d make things a lot easier

Dorothy Allison

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

Claude C. Hopkins

Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now

Courteney Cox

What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.

Clive James

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

Douglas Hyde

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

Anacreon

Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.

Anais Nin

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

Anne Frank

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. (10, October, 1942; Handwritten inscription on a photograph)

Anne Frank

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Andrew Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Christopher Morley

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Anne Bradstreet

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Ambrose Bierce

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

Ambrose Bierce

A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

Ambrose Bierce

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Hoffman

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Alice Hoffman

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Alice Duer Miller

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.