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wish world sun
William Shakespeare I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
wish might matter
Madeleine Albright No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
wish gum enough
C. S. Lewis By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
wish invisible
C. S. Lewis And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
C. S. Lewis if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
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
wish here-and-now enjoy
Cheri Huber When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
wish facts shy
Charlotte Gainsbourg I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.
genius reason highest
Charles Caleb Colton The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
genius literature nodding
Charles Caleb Colton Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius talent particular
Charles Caleb Colton Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Charles Dickens Eccentricities of genius.
genius talent persons
Edmond de Goncourt Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
genius inheritance wealth
Beatrice Webb the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
genius said mark
William Shakespeare There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
genius film my-favorite
Aaron Yoo My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
genius toil flight
Charles Dickens Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
taste relief huge
Akshay Kumar When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.
taste consonants
Edith Wharton ... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
taste willing
David Tudor I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
taste truth-is humans
David Hume Truth is disputable, not human taste.
taste painting study
David Hume Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.
taste meat dams
Denis Leary I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
taste human-nature being-human
Bertolt Brecht There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
taste kind tragic
C. S. Lewis This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
taste remember ancient
Charles Lamb We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.