Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Anthony Trollope

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

Demian Bichir

When I met Quentin [Tarantino], he told me what every actor wishes from any director. He said, "I've been through a Demián Bichir marathon. I've watched everything you've done." Most of the time, they don't even know what you've done.

Dean Koontz

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Dean Koontz

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Coco Chanel

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

Elizabeth Scott

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

April Winchell

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Avi

There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.

Brenda Lee

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Jane Goodall

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

Juvenal

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Juvenal

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Derek Jarman

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Derek Jeter

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Deepika Padukone

Katrina Kaif is doing very well for herself and I'd like to wish her a very Happy Birthday

Dennis Miller

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.

Ed Helms

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Elizabeth Montagu

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

Eliza Coupe

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

William Shakespeare

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Charles Spurgeon

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Al Stewart

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Al Pacino

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Diane Wakoski

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.