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.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Jason Burke

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Jean Cocteau

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Frank Wedekind

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Fiona Apple

Divas are not made, they are born.

Helen Keller

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Cassandra Clare

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Karen Strakbein

Certainly, we know that not all those kids were born here, and we know they don't always stay here.

J. Moore

Hollywood, where an intrigue and a victim are born every time two people meet.