Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Clark Gregg

When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.

Colin Cunningham

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Dan Fogelberg

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

Dan Fogelberg

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

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.

Andy Rooney

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

Andy Rooney

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

Andy Stanley

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

Andy Warhol

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

Andy Warhol

I wish I hadn't made so many images.

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.

Darren Criss

I wish I was old Hollywood.

David Spade

I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.

David Platt

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

David Livingstone

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

Keyon Dooling

Sometimes you don't think, you just react. I wish I could take it back.

Do you ever wish you were a superhero?

They were just jumping. I wish I could say it was me.

That's kind of the thing going into it. I'm not as comfortable with right now as I wish I would be.