Wish Quotes

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I wish I had a funny story.

I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.

I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

Industry need not wish.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.