Quotes About Wish

If only... the two most miserable words in the English language. If only.

He was too damned innocent. Homer wished he could keep Tad at this point, bonsai him to never grow up, to never have to experience bad things—

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

God, I wish he and I had been genuinely close as opposed to the Don't-they-look-nice-together-in-the-airbrushed-family-portrait close.

Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.

Now you must realize this, Hastings. Everyone is a potential murderer. In everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill. How often have you not felt or heard others say: 'She made me so furious

Do you know, Poirot, I almost wish sometimes that you would commit a murder." "Mon cher!" "Yes, I'd like to see just how you'd set about it." "My dear Japp, if I committed a murder you would not have the least chance of seeing—how I set about it! You would not even be aware, probably, that a murder had been committed.

Not that Miss Bulstrode would have allowed herself to be commanded if she had not wished to do so.

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

I'd love personally... this is not an announcement at all, but I would love to see 'Fable 2' on the PC.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I've always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.

I wish I could be Peter Falk.

Man, I wish I was a better pickup guy. I've always been the guy in a relationship.

Otis Redding was the ultimate 60s soul singer. We only get an indication of what he might have become, but he had the best soul pipes a lad could wish for.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I'd love to do another film with Warren. I think that 'Dick Tracy' is an outstanding film in its own right.

Wish he would step foot on this island. I'm old but I'll still cut a bitch.