#wish

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#books #come #could #exist #i

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#happier #happy #longer #soon #wish

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. ↗

— Ann Landers

#dead #happy #married #poor #rich

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz. ↗

— Nathan Lane

#changed #i #jewish #last #name

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#guys #had #i #i wish #know

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#avoid #declare #even #heartily #i

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. ↗

— Matt Lauer

#dad #i #jewish #mom #raised

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. ↗

— Ralph Lauren

#bronx #class #clothes #does #dreams

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#blue #blue jeans #clothes #expression #had

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#could #ease #embrace #ever #good