The wishbone will never replace the backbone
We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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.
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?
The itching sensation that some people mistake for ambition is merely inflammation of the wishbone
Left wing...Right wing...it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
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 ask...
One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that i...
Y That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? Me with my arms outstretched, feet in first position. The chromosome half of us don't have. Second to last in the alphabet: almost there. ...
