Wish Quotes

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

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.