Rick Bragg Quotes

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

A lot of people say if they could go back in time they would not change anything. But, to be honest with you, I like it and I don't like it. I like the fact that all I went through as a youngster made me a great man, but just goin' through what I went through - I wouldn't wanna go through that again. I wouldn't wish that on nobody.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

When I visited KU, I thought, 'I wish I'd gone to Kansas.' They would take me around to their spots, and my spots at Indiana just felt like old hangouts. It was one of those times where you always wished you were somewhere else. But I was happy I ended up at Indiana coming from small little St. Louis.

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger