Sometimes I Wish I Could Quotes

#1. Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#2. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

#3. Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

Matt Stone

#4. Sometimes I wish I could have religion their way. You know, no responsibilities in life but to cut down people who don't think the way you do.

Chris Crutcher

#5. Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my chains are too many, my weights too heavy.

Tahereh Mafi

#6. Sometimes I wish I could feel more pain
so I could touch that much more beauty.

Edward Fahey

#7. Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who has one-night stands, and instead of feeling guilty about it feels empowered by it. But I'm not.

Caprice Crane

#8. Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

Jaromir Jagr

#9. I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.

Eric Hutchinson

#10. Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you're thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand

Chris Kuhn

#11. Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

Larry Wall

#12. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#13. Sometimes I wish I could just wear the same thing every day. Cartoons do it. It'd make things a lot easier

David Archuleta

#14. What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.

Ben Elton

#15. Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Stevie Wonder

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

Peter Ustinov

#17. Sometimes I wish I could act like everyone else, but I can't change who I am. I've tried. But I never wear the right clothes or say the right thing, and something always goes wrong.

Kami Garcia

#18. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It's really frustrating whenever I can't go and do something because I know it's going to be on the internet.

Ashley Greene

#19. Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

Steffi Graf

#20. Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#21. Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.

Gabrielle Dennis

#22. Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

John Coltrane

#23. I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

Christopher Poole

#24. Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice

Drake

#25. Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.

Julia Karr

#26. Sometimes I wish I could sleep forever, but that would mean dreaming forever ... and I just can't risk that.

AnnaLisa Grant

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Sometimes i wish that I was a man so I could tell haters to 'blow me.

Marla Buchanan

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#35. I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Felix Baumgartner

#36. It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change

Julie Eshbaugh

#37. I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

G.K. Chesterton

#38. I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Thomas Gold

#39. I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the
right way again.

Alexander Masters

#40. I love you. I love you so much that sometimes I feel as if it's never enough. I'll always want more of you. Every day I wish I had found you sooner so I could love you longer.

Kimberly Lauren

#41. Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

Mick Fanning

#42. Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'

Tristan Wilds

#43. Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Miranda Cosgrove

#44. Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

Lily Allen

#45. Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

Aaron Lazar

#46. I should practice what I preach. It's a lot easier to show and teach people how to love themselves than it is to do it yourself. I still struggle with it sometimes. I wish sometimes I could always feel that I'm good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me!

Pandora Boxx

#47. I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

Rufus Wainwright

#48. I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.

Joanne Harris

#49. Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#50. Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.

David Levithan

#51. When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.

Michael Graves

#52. I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.

Thomas Schelling

#53. I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

Willem Dafoe

#54. I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.

Stuart Adamson

#55. I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

Wim Wenders

#56. Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.

Simon Pegg

#57. Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#58. I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

Sally Mann

#59. Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say.

Elvis Costello

#60. Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language out of me so that I could come back with a cleansed mind, cleansed of the banalities of the same talk.

Pascal Mercier

#61. Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#62. I'm not very good with on-the-spot motivational speech," I say to her. "Sometimes at night, I'll rewrite conversations I had during the day, but I'll change them up to reflect everything I wish I could have said in the moment.

Colleen Hoover

#63. All this girl-on-girl hate is exhausting. Sometimes I wish we could dose on testosterone, punch each other in the face, and get it over with already.

Megan McCafferty

#64. I wish I could keep a journal. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

Louis C.K.

#65. I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

Billy Crudup

#66. And sometimes," I whispered to him, "I wish it could be you inside me. That I could take you into me and keep you safe always." His hand, large and warm, lifted slowly from the bed and cupped the small round swell of my belly, sheltering and caressing. "You do, my own," he said. "You do.

Diana Gabaldon

#67. Sometimes I just wanted a break from it, but every time I looked forward to see if a break was possible, it never seemed like it could happen. I honestly thought I'd be that way forever, which sometimes made me wish that forever would be a really short time.

Jessica Sorensen

#68. Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

David Sedaris

#69. While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#70. Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

Neil Burger

#71. I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

Namie Amuro

#72. Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

Lana Del Rey

#73. I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

Harold Pinter

#74. Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace.

Natalia Marx

#75. 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

#76. Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Steven Wright

#77. Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

John Waters

#78. Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She

Marion Chesney

#79. I wish I could concentrate on dancing
Instead of spending so much time pretending
I am still in junior high
But with Rem, I want to be sixteen
Or, like Alice in Wonderland,
Sometimes smaller,
Sometimes bigger still.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#80. And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.

Sophie Scholl

#81. Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Paula McLain

#82. In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

Helen Hayes

#83. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#84. I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone ... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#85. Sometimes I wish we could open ourselves up to each other as much as we do to the sky. To the smallness and the enomity.

David Levithan

#86. I sometimes wish I could "reboot",' said Sal. 'Empty my head and start over.

Alex Scarrow

#87. I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first."
Finn eyed me. "Sometimes I think you're even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am."
I grinned. "You only wish you could be as ruthless as me."
"Absolutely.

Jennifer Estep

#88. I think it's ugly, but I don't know anything about modern art. Sometimes I wish Newt would take some lessons, so he could know for sure if he was doing something or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

#89. But I don't understand things!" Danny burst out. "I do but I don't! People ... they feel things and I feel them, but I don't know what I'm feeling!" He looked down at his lap wretchedly. "I wish I could read. Sometimes Tony shows me signs and I can hardly read any of them.

Stephen King

#90. So how did you manage to lose Lunsdorf?"
"He got away from Sergeant Roberts in Harrods."
"I sometimes wish I could do that when shopping with my wife," said the cabinet secretary.

Jeffrey Archer

#91. I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

Langston Hughes

#92. You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

Jane Goodall

#93. I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

A.B. Shepherd

#94. Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

Ja Rule

#95. I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.

Jasmine Warga

#96. I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

Minoru Yamasaki

#97. 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

#98. I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

Isaac Marion

#99. I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I ...

Cassandra Clare

#100. THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION
Sometimes, exhausted
with toil and endeavour,
I wish I could sleep
for ever and ever;
but then this reflection
my longing allays:
I shall be doing it
one of these days.

Piet Hein