Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Earle

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

Steven Wright

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.

Tommy Bolin

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

Sam Houston

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

Stephenie Meyer

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen

Sonia Sotomayor

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Thomas Pynchon

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Thomas Hardy

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edward Abbey

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Donald Cargill

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Andres Segovia

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

Christopher Paolini

May your swords stay sharp -Brom

Ansel Adams

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

Ansel Adams

I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.