Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Piper

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

Edward Norton

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

Bruce Bennett

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

Brett Ratner

I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.

April Winchell

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Avi

There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.

Brenda Lee

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Jane Goodall

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

Juvenal

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Juvenal

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Benjamin Franklin

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Arthur Golden

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

Arthur C. Clarke

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Anthony Trollope

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

Demian Bichir

When I met Quentin [Tarantino], he told me what every actor wishes from any director. He said, "I've been through a Demián Bichir marathon. I've watched everything you've done." Most of the time, they don't even know what you've done.

Dean Koontz

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Dean Koontz

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Billy Collins

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Bode Miller

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Barry Gibb

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Antonin Scalia

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Edward Young

Wishing of all employments is the worst

Edward Young

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

Deepika Padukone

Katrina Kaif is doing very well for herself and I'd like to wish her a very Happy Birthday

Dennis Miller

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.