Thomas Beecham Quotes

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

To have to answer anything about what that slimeball says is just too much.

I can't get no satisfaction.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

I hate cars.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

I really hate press.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

The NFL can go to hell.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.