If the question is, ‘Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,’ the answer is, ‘You bet.’ If the question is, ‘Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,’ the answer must remain, ‘No.’ – Christopher Buckley
When I’m doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I’m doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it’s just human nature. – Alan Ruck
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon. – Gary Oldman
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who’s committed to her own development. – Eleanor Holmes Norton
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. – Charles W. Chesnutt
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps. – Debbie Reynolds
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it’s not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment. – Delta Burke
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. – Frederic Chopin
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. – Molly Ringwald
In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle’s TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away. – Edith Widder
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others. – Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They’re not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that’s just missing now. Now, it’s all urbanized and maybe a little garish. – Francis Lawrence
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from ‘Homeland’ when I’m writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process. – Edan Lepucki
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. – Matt Mullenweg
Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don’t even have to be true! – Dave Barry
You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, ‘That plus that equals success.’ – Michelle Yeoh
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn’t have found it so frightening to write. – Elizabeth George
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. – Nicolas Chamfort
I’m not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. – Cynthia Voigt
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. – Epictetus