I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work. – Tanith Lee
Here’s a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully. – Sigourney Weaver
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people. – Steve Huffman
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. – Samuel Alexander
The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home. – Yair Lapid
I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like ‘Porgy and Bess’ or ‘Showboat.’ I’d love to do ’em. – Vanity
I don’t personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles – I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in. – Xavier Dolan
Let me tell you something, planes and kids… I’ve got a 3 and 1 year old, I don’t wish that on anybody. – Steve Zahn
I’ve read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that’s not true. I think that’s just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge. – Sufjan Stevens
Some will say, ‘I wish I had a different choice. I wish there was a different candidate!’ Listen: you have two choices. You have Donald and you have Hillary. And you have no other choice. – Sean Duffy
Both ‘Oz’ and ‘Homicide,’ they’re critically admired, so it’s not like they’re really neglected, but I wish they’d found bigger audiences. – Zeljko Ivanek
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. ‘Waters of March,’ I wish I had written ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me,’ I wish I had written ‘This Will Be Our Year,’ I mean, there’s millions of them. ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice?’ – Zooey Deschanel
Sometimes, things you wish had happened don’t, or there are things you wish you’d been able to do but can’t. – Theresa May
I get a lot of letters from people saying, ‘How do I get into radio, how do I get into telly?’ and I wish there was an answer, because there’s no ladder. There are no parameters. You’ve just got to go in wherever you can, make the tea, and slowly make your way up the ladder. – Terry Wogan
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice – to make the average good. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle
The band Grizzly Bear, I think they’re excellent. There’s a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late ’80s, when I was forming bands. – Trent Reznor
I wish more people would take a stand and stand up for the principles on which this country was founded. – Virgil Goode
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. – Vinoba Bhave
There was a lot of Pac haters, but I definitely love Pac. I wish I got to do a song with him. – Ty Dolla Sign