Wish Quotes
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I get my share of 'cold' requests via LinkedIn from people who are launching non-profit or for-profit ventures and who request a meeting to get my input or help. I wish I could say yes to all of them, but given limited bandwidth, I say yes to the subset who've written a compelling description of their work and who are underrepresented.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.
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Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.
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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
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I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.
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I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.
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We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
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In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
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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.
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Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it.
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If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
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We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.
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I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.
