Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. (Quote by - Eugen Herrigel)

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. (Quote by - Richard Burton)

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. (Quote by - Lion Feuchtwanger)

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything. (Quote by - David Ortiz)

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. (Quote by - George Eliot)

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one. (Quote by - S. E. Hinton)

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing. (Quote by - Alan Ladd)

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. (Quote by - Peter Stone)

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. (Quote by - C. Wright Mills)

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson)

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. (Quote by - Kathleen Sebelius)

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. (Quote by - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best. (Quote by - Jon Voight)

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. (Quote by - Alexander Woollcott)

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for. (Quote by - Brendan Fraser)

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. (Quote by - Paul Dirac)

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. (Quote by - Lee Tergesen)

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. (Quote by - John Henry Newman)

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst. (Quote by - Andrew Young)

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes. (Quote by - Michelle Kwan)

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else. (Quote by - Angelina Jolie)