Wish Quotes

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, "Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!" We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

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.

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.