As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don’t wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. – J. M. Coetzee
I’ve always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, ‘I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,’ and I said, ‘Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.’ – Jo Brand
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. – Howard Berman
I wish I could be on ‘Politically Incorrect.’ Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name. – Julia Stiles
I actually didn’t really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in ‘The Goodwin Games’… it did make me wish that was an experience that I had. – Adam Rodriguez
I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don’t have the inclination or time. I’m more of a ‘get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens’ kind of traveler. – Candace Bushnell
Occasionally, I’ll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It’s hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn’t. – Carrie Underwood
Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me – I was the accident – so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I’m a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better. – Carrie Underwood
The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn’t forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up – just level. It doesn’t take some special dimension to be president. – Jack Germond
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russell
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. – Baruch Spinoza
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too. – A. J. Cook
Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something. – Clint Eastwood
I think every actor would wish there is some challenge that is left. I would consider to be creatively dead if I were to say that I am satisfied now. – Amitabh Bachchan
I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out. – Jimi Hendrix
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. – Brad Holland