I Wish Quotes

I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.

I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

I wish to die painting.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

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

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

Amy Adams is the wish your heart makes…she’s wicked good.

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.