Top 100 I Wish I Had Quotes
#1. Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
I am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.
i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.
Ishmael Reed
#2. I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.
Emma Forrest
#4. I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#5. I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.
Tyra Banks
#6. I wish I had your talent, David."
"I like that," he said with a small frown.
"What? That I think you're talented?"
"No. I like how my name sounds on your lips."
David and Eva
Michelle K. Pickett
#7. I wish I had flaps of extra skin connecting my arms & legs like a Flying Squirrel & then spend my days at the park jumping from tree to tree
Josh Stern
#8. I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I had done it. The joke's good enough in a broad way, sun and moon and the image of God, and all that, but they keep it up so damnably long.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace.
Natalia Marx
#11. Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
Kurt Cobain
#12. I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.
Chuck Todd
#13. As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.
Patrick White
#14. Yes. And I'm rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I'm worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn't ever want anything else
Mark Twain
#15. We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.
Robin Gibb
#16. People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!"
Paul McCartney
#17. I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.
Dianne Wiest
#18. To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
Roger Zelazny
#20. While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.
Denise Duhamel
#21. Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?
Anders Holm
#22. I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.
Keri Russell
#23. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
Sam Smith
#24. Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.
Harry Styles
#25. I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything ... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#26. I doubt anyone on their deathbed has said "boy, I wish I had taken more shots of Jagermeister." Get
Jason Flamm
#27. I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson
#28. I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.
Lamar Hunt
#29. The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.
Harry Chapin
#30. I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.
Gwen Stefani
#32. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.
Josh Cooke
#33. I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
Connie Francis
#34. As for me, I only wish the former Christy Epping had been correct. I wish I had been emotionally blocked, after all. Because everything that followed - every terrible thing - flowed from those tears.
Stephen King
#35. I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement ... last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope
Harvey Milk
#36. But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
Ernestine Rose
#37. I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
Patton Oswalt
#38. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Mo Rocca
#39. There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.
Kurt Busch
#40. I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.
David Spade
#41. Almost every night I say, I wish I had done much better,
David Frost
#42. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#43. I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'
Artie Lange
#44. One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.
William Zinsser
#45. I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Jimmy Carter
#46. Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.
Kevin Kilbane
#47. I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!
Skee-Lo
#48. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.
Darryl Strawberry
#49. Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.
Cassandra Clare
#50. Trash bags are among my favorite consumer products. I wish I had invented them. What a racket. People buy them, take them home, and throw them away. Let's see Bill Gates top that.
Gary Reilly
#51. Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.
Jimmy Fallon
#52. I wish I had amnesia so I could forget what you look like.
Lucy Christopher
#53. I wish I had a stand-in for real life. Can you imagine having someone walk through your day to make sure everything's fine before it's your turn?
Lygia Day Penaflor
#54. For your wedding gift, I wish I had a spell that could make you see yourself as others do.' 'Based
Deborah Harkness
#55. The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
David Selby
#56. I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
George McGovern
#57. Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'
Zig Ziglar
#58. I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
Kylie Bax
#59. Sometimes I wish I had a rewind button for my mouth.
Belle Aurora
#60. To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.
Neil Cross
#61. I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.
Rebecca Stead
#62. She's a nice girl, Tennessee said as a way of saying goodbye to them, as a way of saying thank you and I'm sorry, as a way of saying, I wish I had never let you go and I wish we had never met.
Ann Patchett
#63. It isn't porn. It's erotic romance. There is a huge difference. Amber Rose writes hot love stories. And if you can't handle it, then I don't care. I love her books, and I wish I had known who she was when I met her. Erotic romance helped me figure out what I wanted." Jake
Lexi Blake
#64. I tell her she's beautiful and perfect and she's going to be okay. I tell her she doesn't need to change herself to fit in with shallow girls or to matter to someone. I tell her everything I wish I had ever known. I tell her I love her, and I realize as I say it that I love me, too.
Cristin Terrill
#65. You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.
Ron Suskind
#66. I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.
Deborah Reber
#67. Perhaps the most simple, and effective, way to initially judge a piece of writing is to ask yourself: is this something I wish I had done myself, or am I glad I didn't?
Scott L. Montgomery
#68. I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.
Clint Eastwood
#69. Seven years after I saw the pictures of those doors, I received my first adult passport. I wish I had come to it sooner.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#70. I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.
Jenny Downham
#71. 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.
Meg Cabot
#72. I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.
Channing Tatum
#73. Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
Zooey Deschanel
#74. Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.
Robin Sacredfire
#75. In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes ... ' I was an idiot ... It's a decade of tears.
Melissa McCarthy
#76. I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why this happened.
Katie Kacvinsky
#77. Writing, unfortunately, takes last priority for my time but it's the first priority in my heart I wish I had all the time for. Such is reality.
Veronica Purcell
#78. I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#79. I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo
Louisa May Alcott
#80. I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Karl Rove
#81. Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.
Gus Van Sant
#82. I wish I had 100 years. 100 years I could give to you" - A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
#83. I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon too soon.
William Faulkner
#84. I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in.
Ray Bradbury
#85. I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
Mary J. Blige
#86. I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.
St. Vincent
#87. I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.
Anne Fortier
#88. When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Edie Brickell
#89. No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry
#90. I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
Terry Bradshaw
#91. Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
Ned Vizzini
#92. I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
Mary J. Blige
#93. And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost.
Ayn Rand
#94. They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know."
"Sometimes I wish I had," I told him.
He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.
Maggie Stiefvater
#95. I do really wish to destroy it!' cried Frodo. 'Or, well, to have it destroyed. I am not made for perilous quests. I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
Anne Lamott
#97. Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have left the darkness for the light. The darkness lingers until you stand naked in the light and let it fill you up, in every corner of your soul.
Poppet
#98. I played some shows, but I'm disappointed it didn't do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show - whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more.
Eleanor Friedberger
#99. I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.
Diane Keaton
#100. Everyone tells me that I have a very sweet face! I'd like to change that. I wish I had a more flexible face!
Soundarya
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