Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

William Orbit

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

Yaphet Kotto

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

Louise Erdrich

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

Mark Haddon

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Paulo Coelho

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Paulo Coelho

When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.

Paulo Coelho

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

Philip Yancey

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

W. H. Auden

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am.

Aidan Quinn

I think it's a pretty down-the-middle, wholesome show.

Young Buck

I been doing music my whole life.

Jose Saramago

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

Joichi Ito

My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

Mike Birbiglia

I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

Marguerite Duras

Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Tama Janowitz

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

Kami Garcia

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.