I wish Quote by Roger McGough Download Open image “I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.” — Roger McGough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare I wish Language Now Used Whimsical Wish Word
The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“The time I like best is 6am when the snow is 6 inches deep which I'm yet to discover 'cause I'm under the covers… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all? — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“noone knows and noone sees we lovers doing what we please but people stop and point at these ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese” — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies” — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I wish to contribute more to south Indian music, especially Tamil music. — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I try not to pass judgment on anyone, and I wish they wouldn't pass it on me. — Mary Beth Whitehead Copy Share Image
I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else. — Arthur Potts Dawson Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
