Top 1200 Wish List Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't dream. I'm not a person who makes a list of things that need to happen in my life. It just evolves, and you roll with the punches.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

When the fixture list is released, while you're on holiday, wherever it is in the world, it reminds you and it makes you hungry to play again.

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

I'm working hard every day to attain all of my goals. Winning the Super Bowl is obviously at the top of that list.

Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

In the short term, it absolutely feels devastating to break a bond of friendship. In the long term, it is the best possible thing. You're actually doing something noble and good if you do it in the right way. You can leave them with, "I wish you the best, but I have to take care of myself." Or you don't have to wish them the best. It's okay if you don't. Maybe they don't deserve the best. That's not up to you to decide. You not wishing someone the best is not going to make anyone's life not the best.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

I am a big fan of 'E.T.,' of course. And I remember watching 'Jurassic Park' - I was so into it. Oh, and 'Schindler's List.' That one was amazing, too.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

One of my travelling bugbears is just people-watching or sticking to a rigid to-do list without venturing further afield.

I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.

I think the terrorism watch list in the United States went over a million people some years ago.

I was offered only item numbers and did not want to accept as I had it ticked off my bucket list.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.

You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear "Freebird" live.

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list.

I don't think 'Jurassic Park' could have been so much fun had Spielberg not made a 'Schindler's List.'

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well?informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.

I have a long list of filmmakers I want to work with. But I have also always had this touch of reality, that if it doesn't happen, it's okay.

Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.