Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas A. Edison

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Simon Bolivar

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

Shel Silverstein

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Sharon Olds

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

Shannen Doherty

I actually wish I had smaller breasts.

Joseph Gatt

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Leonard Cohen

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

Lauren Bacall

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Lasse Hallstrom

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

Kurt Warner

I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

John Keats

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

John Keats

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

Lisa Kleypas

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

Lindsey Vonn

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

Linda McCartney

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Leo Tolstoy

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Leo Tolstoy

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Phil Collins

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Peter Sellers

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Peter Capaldi

I wish I’d known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Queen Latifah

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Joss Whedon

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

Kim Kardashian

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Kim Kardashian

I wish I had a little bit more privacy.

Kelly Reilly

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

Ramakrishna

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Scoot McNairy

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

L. Ron Hubbard

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Leo Buscaglia

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.