Wish Quotes

• I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.

  

  John Cage
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • World
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Live
  • Night
  • Star

• Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. … We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Funny
  • Intelligent

• I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I'm very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Important
  • Wish
  • Smile

• I wish I had more time to read.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • Time
  • Wish

• Though the terrain of frustration may be vast - from a stubbed toe to an untimely death - at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

  

  Anna Quindlen
  • People
  • Character
  • Free

• Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • True
  • Action

• The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Power
  • Powerful

• We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.

  

  Ciara Renee
  • Wish

• An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wish

• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • She
  • Book
  • Funny

• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Desire
  • Impulse
  • Increases

• I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Up
  • Together
  • Fun

• Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Effort
  • Understand

• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Men
  • Women
  • Husband

• The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

  

  David Selby
  • People
  • Peace
  • Wish

• How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Book

• Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Career
  • Proud
  • Motivated

• I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Wish
  • Twin

• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Choices

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