Top 100 Quotes About I Wish
#1. I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole new world in books. If you can't afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
Michael Jackson
#2. He extended his hand: It seemed to meet something in mid-air, and he drew it back with a sharp exclamation. "I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye," said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation.
H.G.Wells
#3. I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.
Criss Angel
#4. Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.
Mark Twain
#5. I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.
Brandy Clark
#6. My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. All this reverential - I'm not a saint." Ma's voice is getting loud again. "I wish people would stop treating us like we're the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I've been finding stuff on the Internet you wouldn't believe.
Emma Donoghue
#8. I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.
James Baldwin
#9. I wish I'd been born in another time, another place. Then maybe I could've escaped fate ... maybe I could've been your darling.
Nalini Singh
#10. God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#11. I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
Charles Kuralt
#12. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull
#13. It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.
Clarence Darrow
#14. I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck.
Victoria Justice
#15. And I wish to thank you as well, Royce."
He was puzzled. "For what?"
"For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.
Michael J. Sullivan
#16. I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.
Robert Pattinson
#17. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#19. I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.
Godfrey
#20. I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?
Hanan Al-Shaykh
#21. I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra
#22. I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
Piet Mondrian
#23. We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.
Libba Bray
#24. Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. I wish he had let you all die.
Madeline Miller
#25. Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.
Adam Anderson
#26. I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
Bertrand Russell
#27. I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.
Sinead O'Connor
#28. I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.
Ringo Starr
#29. As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#30. You must understand, wizard. Once you are my Knight, once this last quest of yours is complete, you are mine. You will destroy what I wish you to destroy. Kill whatsoever I wish you to kill. You will be mine, blood, bone, and breath. Do you understand this?
Anonymous
#31. I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.
Jay Roach
#32. Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free ... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?
Emily Bronte
#33. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.
Rosamund Lupton
#36. Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.
Libba Bray
#37. My heart is pounding like it wants out. I wish I could give it a way out. I'd set the mother-fucker free right now if I could.
Colleen Hoover
#38. I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt.
Andre Breton
#39. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them. 30
James P. Carse
#40. I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini
#41. I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
Sara Paretsky
#42. I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.
Charlie Rowe
#43. I wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart.
Donald Trump
#44. I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.
Daniel Johnston
#45. I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
Bono
#46. The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.
Paul Allen
#47. Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
Ruth Brown
#48. I want to see you again," I told him. "I want you to see me."
"Trust me, I do see you," he stressed. "You're all I fucking see, Addison. When I close my eyes, when I open them, when I'm teaching. You're. There. All. The. Fucking. Time." He rubbed his face. "Sometimes I wish I'd never seen you.
Ella Frank
#49. I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.
Marty Feldman
#50. I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
John James Audubon
#51. I wish she knew that there are other options besides "complete and utter breakdown" and "plastic smile, everything's fine." There's a middle ground, waiting to be found.
Cat Clarke
#52. When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
Kate Atkinson
#53. I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.
Jami Attenberg
#54. Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
Patricia Marx
#55. I wish we could keep on forgetting to remember ourselves.
Julie Buxbaum
#56. What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it
only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#57. I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
Rich Mullins
#58. When the doctors told us she was dying I held her hand and gave up. We both did. I know it wouldn't have made any difference in the end but I wish I had let her see how much I wanted to keep her. I should have raged, Maureen.
Rachel Joyce
#59. You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie.
You had too nice an upbringing.
Your mom and dad were too good to you.
And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.
Garth Ennis
#60. I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you ... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Colin Hay
#61. There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
Mitch Albom
#62. I wish to make it clear that 'history' in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.
Karl R. Popper
#63. 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
#65. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.
Anne Rampling
#66. All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate
and I wish I could find one.
Shulamith Firestone
#68. I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.
Brendan Fraser
#69. I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor Swift
#70. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan Heathcock
#71. I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
Patrick Ness
#72. Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
Rebecca Makkai
#73. I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.
Delroy Lindo
#74. I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.
Woody Allen
#75. I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
Li Keqiang
#76. I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
Charles Perrault
#78. I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
Chloe Sevigny
#79. I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
Barbara Kingsolver
#80. Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.
Tom Smothers
#81. I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease.]
James Whyte Black
#82. I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.
Kirk Kerkorian
#83. I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
Manolo Blahnik
#84. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Cara Delevingne
#85. Even Felicity can't keep from sputtering with laughter. I wish I could use my evil eye. Or at least my evil boot right smack against Cecily's backside.
Libba Bray
#86. Jasper waited until the man was gone before asking, "You ever get tired of folks puckerin' up to your backside?"
Griffin faced him with mock gravity. "Yes. It is deuced tiring, people doing whatever I wish. Makes my life so very disagreeable.
Kady Cross
#87. I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
Taylor Spreitler
#88. I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
Kate Mara
#89. The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things ... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.
Rob Zombie
#90. Lily gave me a nod and a smile. "I wish I could be more like you. You're so confident in who you are."
I had to look away from her eyes full of admiration. "I don't know who I am, Lily. I'm just really good at pretending.
Nicole Williams
#91. But I wish to be enlightened.'
'Let me caution you against it.'
'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?'
'Yes, indeed.'
She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.
Thomas Hardy
#92. I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.
Garry Shandling
#93. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.
Jennifer Niven
#94. I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
Patrick Ewing
#95. Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.
Alex Flinn
#97. As a community, I wish to sit together and think for the betterment of the society. I would like to see prosperity, peace, and an expansion of happiness in the community.
Debasish Mridha
#98. I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.
Bob Seger
#99. I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.
Pete Wentz
#100. As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
Adam DeVine
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