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“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

Ifs Way Said Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Three Next Wish My Own Ability Numbers Talking Five Week Dying Fine Months Limits Riches Block Dry Embarrassment Number Three

Author:Woody Allen

“I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).”

Writing Three Wish Doors Months Boxes Customers Extras Brown Weekend Sunny Three Months Bonus Containing Cheques Cardboard Boxes

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.”

Children Dream Lasts Three Wish Brain Blood Months Jazz Saving Mortals Pounds Electricity Stew Hepburn Audrey Somalia Sonatas

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.”

Feels Three Wish Week Months Six Tired Surface Rome Exhausted Six Months Three Months

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.”

Men Should Littles Long Wish Feminism Hair Months Six Dresses Breathe Six Months Fashionable Skirts Curls Embroidery Long Skirts

Author:Lucy Stone

“Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.”

People Book Self Facts Wish Months Ten Serving Proven Wish You Self Serving

Author:Randy Pausch

“When you do a normal film, you play the character for three months and you say goodbye to him. And then, when you watch the movie, you say, "I wish I could have done that differently. I wish I could have added this to it."”

Done Play Character Film Three Wish Watches Months Normal Goodbye Saying Goodbye Three Months

Author:Taylor Lautner

“Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.”

Years Dream Seems Wish Progress Week Months Fever Recollection Hopes And Fears

Book:The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

“So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their belief.”

Believe Different Body Belief Wish Creation Months Kissing Various Believer Destroyed Fulfillment Visitors

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.”

Ifs Want Wish Months Six Six Months

Author:Marlo Thomas

“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!"”

Thinking Should Humor Happens Funny Wish Cutting Car Months Presses Things Happen Crap Horns Sidewalk

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.”

Wells Heart Stills Ends Stories Might Today Able Three Wish Alive Months Died Global Warming Cosmos Printed Roger Live For Today Three Months Heart Attack Scams Silliness

Author:John Coleman