Top 100 Quotes About I Wish I Could
#1. I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#2. I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
Alan Garner
#3. I just wish you could love me more than you hate him,
-Lo to Ryke
Krista Ritchie
#4. I wish that you knew you could never make it without love for your goddamned self, and that you'll never ever find it in anybody else.
Angel Haze
#5. I wish we could make out in your bed."
Noah sighed. "As do I, but I'm afraid we have ritual burning to conduct."
"It's always something."
"Isn't it though?
Michelle Hodkin
#6. I just wish we could move faster.' He chin-pointed to Nico. 'I don't see how this kid is going to last one more jump. How many more will it take us to get home?
Rick Riordan
#7. I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!
Carl Panzram
#9. I wish every day of my life could be this absurd.
Julie Murphy
#10. I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
Gary Numan
#11. The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
Janet Fitch
#12. I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.
Larry Conley
#13. I wish I could help you" I whisper.
You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.
Simone Elkeles
#14. I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.
Brendan Fraser
#15. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. GRATIANO
I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind.
NERISSA
It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home.
William Shakespeare
#17. Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I've got grace management issues.
A&E Kirk
#18. Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#19. I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.
Jonny Greenwood
#20. I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.
V V Brown
#21. 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.
Larry Gagosian
#22. I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed
up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be
eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from
the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#23. I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
Hasil Adkins
#24. I'm game to stay in bed if you are." "We can't." "Why not?" "Because we don't even know each other." "Hi, my name is Daryl, and I think you're fucking crazy, but hot." More than hot, she totally made his inner kitty wish it could purr.
Eve Langlais
#25. If I could wish for one thing, it would be that I could always feel this way, completely and blissfully consumed by someone else.
Jessica Sorensen
#26. Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.
Carnie Wilson
#27. I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by.
Leylah Attar
#28. I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I'm supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.
Veronica Roth
#29. Wish my life were inside a book
So I could turn to the ending,
See if it is a love story
Or a gothic disaster.
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#30. I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.
Ryan Kwanten
#31. I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
Ava DuVernay
#32. I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
Cassandra Clare
#33. I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.
Art Spiegelman
#34. I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life
Alan Bradley
#35. There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.
Emlyn Chand
#36. What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
Nia Vardalos
#37. I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
Larry Kramer
#38. I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
Mary Gordon
#39. I look at the Chrissy Teigens of the world, who I absolutely love, and I wish that I could say some of the stuff that she says. But I know where I want to go in my career path and I know that there are some things I can't say.
Charissa Thompson
#40. As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists.
But I can't.
The words are there.
Beth Revis
#41. In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing.
Markus Zusak
#42. I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
Adam Driver
#43. I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
Bill Hicks
#44. Sometimes i wish that I was a man so I could tell haters to 'blow me.
Marla Buchanan
#45. Oh, fuck. Those kinds of tests. I wish I could empathize, but the only disease lesbians get from sex is lockjaw.
Tiffany Reisz
#46. I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.
John Muir
#47. I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
Zac Efron
#48. I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.
R.J. Palacio
#49. I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#50. I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.
Tatiana Maslany
#51. My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart,
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
Dorothy Parker
#52. Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.
Joanne Harris
#53. First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.
John Hodgman
#54. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now ...
Cassandra Clare
#55. I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.
Nicole Richie
#56. Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.
Robert Benson
#57. I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."
George Lucas
#58. I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.
Shandy L. Kurth
#59. I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.
Johnny Ramone
#60. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
#61. I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.
Phil Collins
#62. I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.
Harvey Korman
#63. Oh Lola's Boobs,' he says into my chest, 'I wish we knew each other better.'
I crack up laughing.
'What's that you say?' he jokes, putting his ear to my right breast. 'You wish you could come out to play more often but Lola doesn't let you? Well, that's a shame.
Bianca Giovanni
#64. I wish I could live in my dreams and sleep in my reality
Dani Hart
#65. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
Kristin Hunter
#66. The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great release of death, I thought, was not from the bondage to our lovely planet- who could ever wish to leave this extraordinary place?- but from one another.
Valerie Martin
#67. I also felt a storm in the air. It prickled on the horizon. I felt it on my skin. The skies were clear, I could not wish for clearer. But I could feel the clouds massing against me, somewhere over the horizon.
Philippa Gregory
#68. Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.
Gary Morris
#69. God, I can't even begin to tell you ... I just wish that you could have felt it too. So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever.
Jay McLean
#70. Actually I brought a friend for you to meet." Ruby looked over at Kate. "Is she going on vacation here?" Kate smiled and stepped closer. "I wish I could go on vacation," she said easily. "But actually I
Kirkland, Rainy
#71. I could come back tomorrow morning and see if anyone needs any pots mended." "Oh, they will," Morinen said. "People always drop things. I wish I had a pair of stockings for every dish I've broken." The
Emily Croy Barker
#72. I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
Agnes Denes
#73. I wish I was as true an artist as you so that I could find a way to tell you what you've become to me. America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion
Kiera Cass
#74. I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#76. I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
Mara Wilson
#77. I wish I could fly.
I wish I were rich.
I wish I had more time."
"But you can, and you are, and you do;
I wish you would open your eyes.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.
Blake Shelton
#79. I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo
#80. I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
Tom Paulin
#81. I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
#82. I'm not comfortable with the idea of my sex appeal, but I know in my job I have to use it. I wish I could say I got to this point in my career based on my talent, but I don't think that's true.
Matthew Morrison
#83. I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.
I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.
Brenda Lochinger
#84. String Reprise / Treaty
I wish there was a treaty we could sign
It's over now, the water and the wine
We were broken then but now we're borderline
And I wish there was a treaty,
I wish there was a treaty between your love and mine
Leonard Cohen
#85. I really wish I could confirm to him
that you do in fact have a penis. A very
big and pretty penis," Blaire whispered.
I winced.
"Please, just call it big.
Don't call it pretty. That hurts its
feelings.
Abbi Glines
#86. I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.
Jackie Kessler
#87. I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
Joe Torre
#88. 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.
Charisma Carpenter
#89. I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'
Matt Holliday
#90. The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'
Ayn Rand
#91. I wish there were a way to show Trea how I could give her things she doesn't even know she needs. I could fill a spot she won't even admit is empty.
Hilary Thompson
#92. I wish we could take the hill. Could flood right on over it and end the war, wipe them all away in one great motion. But we can't. No matter how much I wish ... or trust in God ...
Michael Shaara
#93. I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.
Bart Starr
#94. As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.
Miranda Cosgrove
#95. I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.
Grant Achatz
#96. He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'
you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time
Cassandra Clare
#97. I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
Brenda Lee
#98. I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and then haggling for the price. I wish I could just snap my fingers and my car is there.
Kiran Ahluwalia
#99. Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#100. Why didn't we do this then? Probably because we had class on Monday morning. But I wish we had taken that ferry when we had the chance. What was the worst thing that could have happened? We would have missed class.
Matthew Quick
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