All Quotes

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.
‐‐ Andy Dick

I wish Pat Bowlen and the Broncos' organization nothing but the best in the future.
‐‐ Josh McDaniels

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.
‐‐ Tammy Faye Bakker

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
‐‐ Ed Stoppard

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

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

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.
‐‐ Kevin Whately

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.
‐‐ Tre Cool

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.
‐‐ Lewis Gordon Pugh

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.
‐‐ Britt Daniel

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
‐‐ Ira Glass

I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
‐‐ Taylor Spreitler

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
‐‐ John Waters

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
‐‐ Joseph Gatt

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.
‐‐ Mark McGwire

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.
‐‐ Grant Achatz

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.
‐‐ Cheryl Mendelson

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
‐‐ Bernadine Dohrn

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
‐‐ Alice Eve

I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
‐‐ Shakira

I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
‐‐ Nell Carter

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
‐‐ Lee Konitz

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
‐‐ Ben Whishaw

I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
‐‐ Francis Lawrence

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
‐‐ Jack Kingston