Quotes About Wish

All day long I keep wishing, let partition be a past now. It should only remain a part of history.

Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.'

I appreciate that I have lots of fans out there, and they want to wish me well, but I don't want that to influence how I feel throughout the day or how I act within a scene.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

If I had one wish, I would wish that every good thing I ever wished for would come true.

Sonhar é uma forma de viver.

Penso que este, talvez, poderia ser parte do segredo do sonho: que nesta nostalgia imensa que não nos abandona moram os nossos desejos mais antigos, esquecidos. Daí a dor da saudade: desejar, sem se saber o que se deseja, um sapato vazio, sem nenhum pedido, Papai Noel que não vem...

And if you can't go to heaven, May you at least die in Ireland.

As he gazed at the distant stars on the screen, a deeply buried memory pushed its way into his consciousness. It was the memory of a wish, a wish to visit every star in the galaxy. But that wish, and the dreams that went with it, had belonged to someone else, a child who lived a long time ago and was no more. Those were the dreams of a boy named Anakin Skywalker.

A well-established human mind is referred to as a kalpavriksha, or a wishing tree that grants any boon.

Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for?

The Adams and the Eves used to say, We are what we eat, but I prefer to say, we are what we wish. Because if you can't wish, why bother?

There were swings in one of the parks, but because of our skirts, which might be blown up by the wind and then looked into, we were not to think of taking such a liberty as a swing. Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar; only they could be airborne. I have still never been on a swing. It remains one of my wishes.

China does not exist. Nevertheless, she longs to be there.

A breath would blow you away, they beam down at her silently. You wish, thinks Tony, smiling up. Many have blown. She

I did not give him a straight answer, because saying what you really want out loud brings bad luck, and then the good thing will never happen. It might not happen anyway, but just to make sure, you should be careful about saying what you want or even wanting anything, as you may be punished for it.

you can't change the past, Aunt Lou used to say. Oh, but I wanted to; that was the one thing I really wanted to do

I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. Like earth. I wish it would rain. Better still, a thunderstorm, black clouds, lightning, ear-splitting sound.

God be with you is not an unmixed blessing.

at this distance you're a mirage, a glossy image fixed in the posture of the last time I saw you. Turn you over, there's a place for the address. Wish you were here.

It's an old word, fading now. Dearly did I wish. Dearly did I long for. I loved him dearly.

All she wants is for both of them to be different. Not very different, a little would do it. Same molecules, different arrangement. All she wants is a miracle, because anything else is hopeless.