“I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?” MenWishCuttingHe ManRose Author:Ella Maillart
“John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.” YearsWellsGamesWishTechnologyCuttingGroupsDevelopmentProjectsTraditionEdgesCurrentsStudiosBrilliantFortunateColleaguesProgrammersDepartureResignedCutting Edge Author:Tim Willits
“Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.” WritingBigsFilmSongWishEasyCan DoCuttingHairDirectorsComparisonOverwhelmingYou Can Do ItScopeMagnitudeWriting SongsFilm DirectorsBagelsHair Cut Author:Tom Waits
“There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.” IfsMenMayHelpingWishCuttingFortuneContentmentLengthRemedyDefects Book:Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse
“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.” WayTryingWellsLyingSufferingNextWishWaitingCuttingWeaknessIllnessSicknessPerpetualDisgustingWoeTireDiscouragingSnaresGet WellManifoldArdorRespiteFaltering Book:Hadrian's Memoirs Source: Hadrian's Memoirs
“I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.” IfsBodyWishCuttingTaxesRaisedTax Cuts Author:George W. Bush
“Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.” EyeWishWalksFireCuttingBrotherPleaseMouthsBlessedHumbleFlamesAway From YouCringeGranite Book:Anthem Source: Anthem
“On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.” LittlesTodayGuyTurnsWishBitsSportsChanceCuttingLittle BitAthleteClock Author:Eric Heiden
“When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.” GovernmentWishCuttingTreeFruitBottomSavagesDespotismLouisiana Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.” IfsGivingShouldRealSometimesHappensAbleWishUnitedResultsCuttingElementsPainfulComplicatedPhysicsCommandCombinationLabourComparisonSubstitutesGeometryAlteredTroublesomeInconvenient Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert
“I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"” ThinkingShouldHumorHappensFunnyWishCuttingCarMonthsPressesThings HappenCrapHornsSidewalk Author:Mitch Hedberg