I Wish Quotes

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.

I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

I don't wish to embarrass anyone.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should wear it.

Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.