Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
I wish you the wisdom to know you’re better than what you've settled for, the desire for something greater, and the courage to go get it.
I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb!
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium. Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.
Sweet n Sour Here I am Wishing you Luck in Every aspect of life This Ugadi (Gudi Padwa) and always to All of You
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
