Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gillian Jacobs

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.

James D. Watson

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

Cassandra Clare

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

Cassandra Clare

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Cassandra Clare

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Homer

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

Homer

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

Steven Morrissey

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

Steven Pinker

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Sue Monk Kidd

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Robert Burns

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Redd Foxx

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

Joan of Arc

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

Garrison Keillor

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

Francois Fenelon

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Frank A. Clark

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

Gayle King

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

Geena Davis

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Heidi Julavits

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

Hippolyte Taine

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

Heinrich Heine

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Hilary Duff

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Henry James

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Helene Cixous

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

Steven Wright

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Steven Wright

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

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.