All Quotes

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
‐‐ Karlie Kloss

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
‐‐ Alvin Martin

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
‐‐ David Gallagher

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

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
‐‐ Patti LuPone

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.
‐‐ Sydney Wayser

I wish I could have skipped college.
‐‐ Saul Kripke

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
‐‐ Marat Safin

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

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
‐‐ Layne Staley

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

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

I wish I could look back and say, 'OK here was a T.V. show or a movie that I thought was so perfect for me', or, 'I did such a good job that if I died tomorrow at least I could say I left that as my legacy.' But there isn't anything that falls into that category.
‐‐ Dave Madden

I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.
‐‐ Angela Ruggiero

I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
‐‐ Gabriel Basso

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.
‐‐ Judy Blume

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

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!
‐‐ Kelsey Chow

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

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

I wish I could renounce politics.
‐‐ Jejomar Binay

I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.
‐‐ Dean Jones

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

I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.
‐‐ Kim Harrison

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
‐‐ Oksana Baiul

I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.
‐‐ Paul Marciano

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

I wish I could score everything for horns.
‐‐ Richard Wagner

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
‐‐ John Oates

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

I wish I could sing better.
‐‐ Penny Marshall

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.
‐‐ Moby

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.
‐‐ Sigrid Agren

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
‐‐ Zach Galifianakis

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
‐‐ Jessica Alba