All Quotes

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
‐‐ George Seaton

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
‐‐ Greta Garbo

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

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.
‐‐ Alan Ladd

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
‐‐ Joanna Baillie

I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.
‐‐ Alan Cheuse

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
‐‐ Najib Mikati

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
‐‐ Sharon Olds

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
‐‐ Paul Mazursky

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
‐‐ Juvenal

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
‐‐ Sitting Bull

I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'
‐‐ Tyne Daly

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
‐‐ Veronica Franco

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
‐‐ Robert Reich

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

I wish Michael Sam nothing but the best in his quest to become a star in the NFL,and I am confident he will get the opportunity to show what he can do on the field.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

I wish more Italian literature were translated and read in English. I've discovered so many extraordinary and diverse writers: Lalla Romano, Carlo Cassola. Beppe Fenoglio, Giorgio Manganelli, just to name a few.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
‐‐ Harry Callahan

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.
‐‐ Nick Clegg

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

I wish my abs were a little bit better. God gave me a great body, but I think my abs could be better than they are.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
‐‐ Edward Burtynsky

I wish my brother well. We agree to disagree, but he is a good man. He is my brother.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.
‐‐ Tina Brown

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
‐‐ Nicholas Breton

I wish my father could be around.
‐‐ Franz Wright

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
‐‐ Paul Oakenfold

I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.
‐‐ Britney Spears

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.
‐‐ Cesar Millan

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.
‐‐ Marie Osmond

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
‐‐ Agnes Obel

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
‐‐ Piers Anthony

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
‐‐ Nancy Travis

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
‐‐ Barry Sanders

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Julie Doucet

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
‐‐ David Bowie

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
‐‐ Kate Mara