Wishbones Quotes

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.