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Quotes About Wish

I wish I was somebody else except me.
~ Carson McCullers
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . . . She thought a long time and kept hitting her thighs with her fists. Her face fell like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.
~ Carson McCullers
Glegg: But do you intend to be dead? Worsely: I try to. My doctor says I'm so safety prone I must have a lifewish. I have a sense of humour about psychiatrists.
~ Caryl Churchill
You have the right to make this determination, even if I don't appreciate it. But at times like this, I almost wish I could relax my standards. If I did, I might console myself with the possibility of using a dull, rusty needle on you someday.
~ Cathy Marie Hake
How often we wish we'd stayed on the same path
~ Cecelia Ahern
Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?
~ Cecelia Ahern
Cross your fingers and pray for a miracle.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Por qué no podía, al menos por una vez, descubrir que tenía poderes mágicos? No era justo, a las chicas americanas en las películas siempre les ocurría...
~ Cecelia Ahern
Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.
~ Charlaine Harris
I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.'
~ Julie Andrews
Yes, I would have wanted Messi to be born in Brazil.
~ Tite
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
~ Michael York
Flying is just such a hassle. If I had a million dollars, I would teleport.
~ Jermaine Fowler
I know that my buddy Jorgeson was a real American hero. I wish that he had lived to be something else, if not a painter of pictures then even some kind of fuckup with a factory job and four divorces, bankruptcy petitions, in and out of jail. I wish he had been that. I wish he had been anything rather than a real American hero.
~ Thom Jones
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
~ Thomas Hardy
But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world.
~ Thomas Hardy
But I wish to be enlightened.' 'Let me caution you against it.' 'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?' 'Yes, indeed.' She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.
~ Thomas Hardy
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
~ Thomas Hardy
El trajecte serà curt, pensava. Tant de bo durés sempre!
~ Thomas Mann
ce que nous appelons la douleur n'est peut-être pas tant le regret que nous éprouvons de cette impossibilité de voir les morts revenir à la vie que notre impuissance à le souhaiter.
~ Thomas Mann
In all of us is the wish to return to the has-been and repeat it, that if it were once unblest it may now be blessed.
~ Thomas Mann
Nobody here wants Competition,' Ives LeSpark re-entering, shaking his head gravely. 'All wish but to name their Price, and maintain it, without the extra work and worry all these damn'd Up-starts require.
~ Thomas Pynchon
a dream without a plan is just a wish
~ Katherine Paterson
Of all the merfolk, Keeper loved Yemaya best. Goddess of the deep. Yemaya. If you gave her a gift, she might grant a wish.
~ Kathi Appelt