At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
for a moment, she let herself be defeated, wished herself not exactly annihilation but into a temporary absense, into being nowhere and no one just for a little while.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.
They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.
Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
