“And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.” LongIdeasStatesPastWishUnitedUnited StatesProduceWallSkinsPerformancesTradeUnionsCaughtSovietWornRunnersTigersHuntersSoviet UnionChairmanLiving OnWorn OutHyperbole Author:John F. Kennedy
“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.” FirstsI CanTwoWholeFactsShowsRememberNightChoicesGivenWishCareersPerformancesCriticsEvening Author:Richard McCabe
“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.” IfsI CanMotherWishFeltRoomsBenefitsEmptyPerformancesPerformersTeresaHospiceEmpty Rooms Author:Bea Arthur
“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.” NamesWishDutyGoes OnPerformancesSilentNewspapersStrict Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.” WishStupidInvolvedDrugIllusionPerformancesSteroidPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Mark McGwire
“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.” SeemsWishGeniusTasteCapacityPerformancesWitNovelistsLabourReviews Author:Jane Austen
“Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.” ThinkingMindHas BeensDreamCoursesWishPerformancesIntelligentSilentIntelligenceThoughtfulDescriptionClueJohnsonIncompleteDaydreamingJoyceBabbling Author:Gilbert Ryle
“The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.” AbleWishCapableUnderstoodPerformancesLongingFlightAviation Book:Leonardo da Vinci Source: Leonardo da Vinci