My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.
I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.
The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?
I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new mental map of where you are, not where you wish you were. To survive you must find yourself, then it won't matter where you are.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.
As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can. but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.
If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.